William Blake Selected Writings

by Otto, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780192868053
• ISBN10: 0192868055
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-11-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Peter Otto, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne

Peter Otto is Professor of Literature at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He teaches and researches in the literatures and cultures of modernity, from Romanticism to the new media of today. His recent publications include Entertaining the
Supernatural: Animal Magnetism, Spiritualism, Secular Magic and Psychical Science, an online collection of primary texts (2007); Multiplying Worlds: Romanticism, Modernity, and the Emergence of Virtual Reality (OUP 2011); and 'Innovations in Encompassing Large Scenes', an online exhibition housed in
the Romantic Circles Gallery of Visual Culture (2013). He has published two books on William Blake, both with Oxford University Press, numerous articles on Blake, Romanticism, and Gothic Fictions, and is currently completing a monograph on 'William Blake and the History of Imagination: Poetry,
Prophecy, and Secularization'.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chronology
From Poetical Sketches (1783)
[An Island in the Moon] (c.1785)
From Annotations to Lavater's Aphorisms on Man (1788)
All Religions Are One (1788)
There Is No Natural Religion (1788)
From Annotations to Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell (1784; notes c.1789)
Songs of Innocence (1789)
The Book of Thel (1789)
From Annotations to Swedenborg's Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1788; notes c.1790)
From Annotations to Swedenborg's Divine Providence (1790; notes c.1790)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
From The Notebook (c.1791-93)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
America a Prophecy (1793)
To the Public [Prospectus] (1793)
From The Notebook (c.1793)
For Children: The Gates of Paradise (1793)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794)
Europe a Prophecy (1794)
The First Book of Urizen (1794)
The Song of Los (1795)
The Book of Ahania (1795)
The Book of Los (1795)
From Vala or The Four Zoas (1797-c.1807)
From The Notebook (c.1797-99)
From Annotations to Watson's An Apology for the Bible (1797; notes 1798)
From Annotations to Bacon's Essays (1798; notes c.1798)
From Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1798; notes c.1798-1809)
Letters [1799-1800]
From Annotations to Boyd's Translation of the Inferno (1785; notes c.1800)
Letters [1802-3]
Memorandum in Refutation of the . . . Complaint of John Scolfield (August 1803]
Letters [1803-4]
From The Notebook (c.1803-04)
Milton a Poem (c.1804-1811)
[The Pickering Manuscript] (c.1805-07)
From The Notebook (c.1807-09)
Blake's Exhibition (1809)
From Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804-c.1820)
From [A Vision of the Last Judgment] (1810)
From [A Public Address to the Chalcographic Society] (c.1810)
Europe, Title page (late revisions, c.1815-20)
From Annotations to Spurzheim's Observations (1817; notes c.1818)
Letters [1818]
The Everlasting Gospel (c.1818)
For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (1820)
Annotations to Berkeley's Siris (1744; notes c.1820)
From Annotations to Wordsworth's Preface to The Excursion (1814; notes 1826)
From Annotations to Wordsworth's Poems (1815; notes 1826)
From Annotations to Thornton's The Lord's Prayer (1827)
Letter [1827]
On Homers Poetry and On Virgil (c.1820)
The Ghost of Abel (1822)
[Jehovah]& his two Sons Satan & Adam [The Laocoön] (c.1826-27)
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index of Titles and First Lines