Blake Quarterly (summer 2020)
22 July 2020
Our sizzling summer 2020 issue—vol. 54, no. 1—is out today and, as usual, will be open access until the end of the month.
Continue readingLanguages and Ligatures
10 July 2020
One of the first blog posts I ever wrote for Hell’s Printing Press was titled “Laocoön and Languages.” The inspiration behind the post was that, in working on textual transcriptions, I had come across instances where Blake writes in a language other than English and I had been pointed to Laocoön as an example of a published Blake Archive work that deals with the problem of how to transcribe text in languages other than English.
Publication: The French Revolution
29 May 2020
The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of a digital edition of Blake’s French Revolution.
Continue readingRemembrance: Dmitri Smirnov, 1948–2020
7 May 2020
This remembrance is by Vera Serdechnaia, Candidate of Philology, Krasnodar (Russia). Vera is academic editor at the Analitika Rodis publishing house and a theatre critic. It will also appear in our summer 2020 (vol. 54, no. 1) issue.
Continue readingBlake Quarterly (spring 2020)
22 April 2020
The spring 2020 issue (vol. 53, no. 4) of the Blake Quarterly is now online and open access until the end of April.
Continue readingWaves of Regret and Waves of Joy: Searching for the End of the World in the Blake Archive
10 April 2020
Here we are, a month into coronavirus quarantine.
Continue readingTutorial Video: True Size
7 April 2020
Check out this new tutorial video on using the True Size tool in the Blake Archive!
Publication: Shakespeare Water Color Illustrations
31 March 2020
The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of a digital edition of Blake’s water color illustrations to the plays of William Shakespeare.
Continue reading“I again display my Giant forms to the Public”: Q&A with Tate Britain
30 March 2020
The Tate Blake exhibition closed its doors in February and the many works on display are presumably now all safe and sound at their home institutions. At the Blake Quarterly I’ve been consulting the exhibition catalogue and referring to installation photos in the process of laying out Luisa Calè’s review for our upcoming spring 2020 issue.
Continue readingTutorial Video: Electronic Edition Information
6 February 2020
Check out this new tutorial video on how to view the electronic edition information for works in the Blake Archive!