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VOLUME 17 NUMBER 1 SUMMER 1983

CONTENTS

4 Redefining the Texts of Blake (another temporary report)

by David V. Erdman

MINUTE PARTICULARS

16 Charles Parr Burney as a Blake Collector by G. E. Bent-

ley, Jr.

16 An Emendation in "The Chimney Sweeper" of Innocence

by Alexander S. Gourlay

18 A Minute Particular in Blake's Songs of Innocence, Copy

O by Theresa M. Kelley

REVIEWS

20 Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature,

reviewed by Robert Alter

22 William L. Pressly, The Life and Art of James Barry,

reviewed by Shelley M. Bennett

24 Essick and Labelle, eds., Flaxman's Illustrations to Homer,

reviewed by Janet Warner

25 Blake, a play written and directed by Grant Hehir,

reviewed by Michael J. Tolley

26 James King and Charles Ryskamp, eds., The Letters and

Prose Writings of William Cowper Vol. II: Letters 1782-

1876, reviewed by Donald H. Reiman

30 Davis Grubb, Ancient Lights, reviewed by Nelson Hilton

32 Warren Stevenson, The Myth of the Golden Age in English

Romantic Poetry, reviewed by V. A. De Luca

32 Geoffrey Keynes, Kt., and Peter Davidson, eds., A Watch

of Nightingales, reviewed by G. E. Bentley, Jr.

36 Nancy Willard, A Visit to William Blake's Inn, Poems for

Innocent and Experienced Travelers, reviewed by Elizabeth

B. Bentley

© 1983 by Morris Eaves and Morton D. Paley

SUMMER 1983

CONTRIBUTORS

ROBERT ALTER is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative

Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. His

two most recent books are The Art of Biblical Narrative (Basic

Books, 1981) and Motives for Fiction, which will be published

in 1984 by Harvard University Press.

SHELLEY M. BENNETT, Ph.D. in An History from UCLA

(1977), has published on aspects of English art, in particular

eighteenth-century book illustration. She is currently As-

sistant Curator of the Henry E. Huntington Art Gallery.

ELIZABETH B. BENTLEY wrote her review at the Bod-

leian Library. The proofreading was done in Shanghai, where

she is teaching at Fudan and Tongji Universities. Normally,

she teaches and resides in Toronto.

G. E. BENTLEY, JR., sometime of the universities of Chi-

cago, Toronto, Algiers and Poona, is currently Fulbright

Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Lit-

erature of Fudan University, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of

China, where he lives in luxury (maid-service, personal in-

terpreter, transportation) and teaches Blake.

V. A. DE LUCA is Professor of English at the University of

Toronto. His article, "The Changing Order of Plates in Je-

rusalem, Chapter II," appeared in the Spring 1983 issue of

Blake.

DAVID ERDMAN is very hopeful he's found a publisher

for the Four Zoas facsimile with commentary on the designs,

by Professor Magno and himself.

ALEXANDER S. GOURLAY is an instructor at the College

of Wooster (Ohio). He is writing a dissertation on The Book

ofThel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion and is co-author

(with John E. Grant) of an essay on Blake and Reynolds

forthcoming in the Bulletin of Research in the Humanities.

NELSON HILTON'S Literal Imagination: Blake's Vision of

Words has just been published by the University of California

Press.

THERESA M. KELLEY, Associate Professor of English at

the University of Texas at San Antonio, is the author of articles

on Wordsworth, romantic figuration, eighteenth-century

iconography and the sister arts. She is completing a book on

Wordsworth's aesthetics as an archeology of the mind.

DONALD H. REIMAN'S volumes VII and VIII of Shelley

and His Circle wend their way through several stages of proof

toward publication in 1984, while he also shepherds to press

the first dozen volumes of Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics,

of which he is General Editor. In this series Garland Pub-

SUMMER 1983 BLAKE AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY

lishing will issue in facsimile, with full scholarly apparatus, important literary manuscripts of Byron, Shelley, Keats, and their circles.

MICHAEL J. TOLLEY is currently Chairman of the De-partment of English at the University of Adelaide, thus add-ing further delays to his continuing work on William Blake's Designs to Edward Young's Night Thoughts and Blake's use of the Bible: an annotated checklist. He is, however, reviewing Tannenbaum for SiR and preparing an article on Blake's (as he maintains) "To the Nightingale."

JANET WARNER is Associate Professor of English at Glen-don College, York University, Toronto.

EDITORS

Editors: Morris Eaves, Univ. of New Mexico, and Morton D. Paley, Univ. of Calif, Berkeley.

Bibliographer: Thomas L. Minnick, Ohio State Univ.

Review Editor: Nelson Hilton, Univ. of Georgia, Athens.

Associate Editor for Great Britain: Frances A. Carey, Assistant Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum.

Production Office: Morris Eaves, Department of English, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131, Telephone 505/277-3103. Morton D. Paley, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. Thomas L. Minnick, University College, Ohio State University, 1050 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Nelson Hilton, Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. Frances A. Carey, Department of Prints and Drawings British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WClB 3DG, England.

INFORMATION

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Karl Kiralis

1923-1982

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