Author:William Blake

William Blake
(1757–1827)

William Blake

Works

• Poetical Sketches (1769–1777, printed 1783)
• "then She bore Pale desire…" (fragment, before 1777)
• An Island in the Moon (unfinished c.1787)
• Songs of Innocence 1789
  • Introduction
  • The Shepherd
  • The Echoing Green
  • The Lamb
  • The Little Black Boy
  • The Blossom
  • The Chimney Sweeper
  • The Little Boy Lost
  • The Little Boy Found
  • Laughing Song
  • A Cradle Song
  • The Divine Image
  • Holy Thursday
  • Night
  • Spring
  • Nurse's Song
  • Infant Joy
  • A Dream
  • On Another's Sorrow
• Tiriel
• There is no Natural Religion 1788
• All Religions are One 1788
• The Book of Thel (1789)
• To Nobodaddy
• The French Revolution unpublished (1791)
• Prospectus to the Public 1793
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Between 1790 & 1793)
  • Proverbs of Hell
  • of the Gates
  • To The Accuser who is The God of This World
• Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
• The Gates of Paradise 1793
• America a Prophecy (1793)
  • Preludium
  • A Prophecy
• Europe a Prophecy (1794)
  • Preludium
  • A Prophecy
• The Book of Urizen (1794)
• Songs of Experience 1794 (transcription project)
  • Introduction
  • Earth's Answer
  • The Clod and the Pebble
  • Holy Thursday
  • The Little Girl Lost
  • The Little Girl Found
  • The Chimney-Sweeper
  • Nurse's Song
  • The Sick Rose
  • The Fly
  • The Angel
  • The Tyger
  • My Pretty Rose Tree
  • Ah, Sunflower
  • The Lily
  • The Garden of Love
  • The Little Vagabond
  • London
  • The Human Abstract
  • Infant Sorrow
  • A Poison Tree
  • A Little Boy Lost
  • A Little Girl Lost
  • A Divine Image
  • A Cradle Song
  • The Schoolboy
  • To Tirzah
  • The Voice of the Ancient Bard
• The Book of Ahania (1795)
• The Book of Los 1795
• The Song of Los 1795
• Vala, or The Four Zoas 1797 – 1803
• Milton, a Poem in 2 Books. 1804 - 1809 (1821)
  • Preface, including the verse known as Jerusalem
  • Book the First
  • Book the Second
• Descriptive Catalogue 1809
• Sibylline Leaves. On Homer's poetry, On Virgil. 1818
• Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion 1804 – 1820
  • To the Jews
• A Vision of the Last Judgment
• The Everlasting Gospel (complete) / The Everlasting Gospel (fragments)
  • Do what you will this life's a fiction
• Letters of William Blake
  • [Los the Terrible] With happiness stretchd across the hills.... From the letter to Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802
• Songs and Ballads
  • Notebook (or "Rossetti Manuscript") c.1787 – c.1818
    • I Heard an Angel
    • Silent, Silent Night
    • Eternity
    • I saw a chapel all of gold
    • "Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau"
  • The Ballads (or "Pickering Manuscript")
    • The Smile
    • The Golden Net
    • The Mental Traveller
    • The Land of Dreams
    • Mary
    • The Crystal Cabinet
    • The Grey Monk
    • Auguries of Innocence
    • Long John Brown & Little Mary Bell
    • William Bond
• Satiric verses and epigrams from Blake's Notebook
  • Motto to the Songs of Innocence & of Experience
  • Let the Brothels of Paris be opened
  • He is a Cock would
  • And his legs carried it like a long fork
  • Some Men created for destruction come
  • Blake's apology for his Catalogue
  • Cosway Frazer & Baldwin of Egypts Lake
  • The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule
• Laocoon (c. 1826-7)
• Illustrations of the Book of Job

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As illustrator (only)

• Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, 1798
• The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, 1798
• A Father's Memoirs of his Child, 1805

Works about Blake

Biographies

• Notes on Blake the illustrator from "Introduction," A Father's Memoirs of his Child by B. H. Malkin (illustrations by Blake), 1805, pp. xviii-xli.
• Extracts from the Diary, Letters, and Reminiscences of Henry Crabb Robinson (transcribed from the Original MSS. in Dr. Williams's Library, 1810-1852) in William Blake edited by Symons, 1907, Part II ("Records from contemporary sources").
• Obituary Notices in the 'Literary Gazette' and 'Gentleman's Magazine', reprinted in William Blake, 1907 (edited by Symons) 1827
• "William Blake." The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Vol. 2. Cunningham. 1830. 140-79.
  • [[William Blake (Symons)/Life Of Blake. By Allan Cunningham|Reprint]] in William Blake by Arthur Symons, 1907.
• Life of William Blake, by Alexander Gilchrist, D. G. Rossetti, W. M. Rossetti, Anne Gilchrist, 1863 (1880)
• Biography in Nollekens and His Times by J. T. Smith, 1829
• "Essay on Blake," James Smetham, London Quarterly Review, January 1869.
  • Reprint: Essay on Blake by James Smetham in Gilchrist, Life of William Blake (1880), Volume 2
• "Life of Blake," Frederick Tatham, MS., reprinted in The Letters of William Blake together with His Life by F. Tatham, A. G. B. Russell ed., 1906
• William Blake (1910), by Gilbert Keith Chesterton [1]

Articles from reference works

• Redgrave, Samuel (1878), "Blake, William" in A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: 44–45.
• "Blake, William," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Blake, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Blake, William (1757-1827)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols. Gilchrist, Anne
• "Blake, William," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Blake, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "William Blake, Poet and Painter", by Edmund Clarence Stedman from Genius, and other essays (1911; piece originally published in 15 January 1881 issue of The Critic).

Other

• Postscript of Letter to The Rev. H. F. Cary, 6 February 1818 by Coleridge
• Fragment of a Letter to Charles Augustus Tulk, 12 February 1818 by Coleridge
• Extract from Diary illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth, by Lady Charlotte Bury, 1820
• Blake's Horoscope reprint, originally in Urania, or the Astrologers Choice. 1825
• extract from Varley's Zodiacal Physiognomy, 1828.
• “The Poems of William Blake,” essay by James Thomson, 1865
• William Blake, a critical essay (1868), by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Poetical sketches by William Blake: now first reprinted from the original edition of 1783. Edited by R H Shepherd. 1868
• The works of William Blake, poetic, symbolic and critical 3 volume edition, edited by Ellis (introduction) and W. B. Yeats, 1893
• William Blake, his life, character and genius by A. T. Story, 1893
• William Blake, Painter and Poet by R. Garnett, 1895
• Facsimile of the original outlines before colouring of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience 1893. Edited by Ellis (introduction)
• The prophetic books of William Blake, Milton, with an Introduction 1904. Edited by Maclagan, E.R.D.; Russell, A.G.B.
• The prophetic books of William Blake, Jerusalem, as above,
• The poetical works of William Blake a new and verbatim text ... edited and annotated by John Sampson, 1905. (transcription project)
• The poetical works of William Blake, including the unpublished 'French Revolution', together with ... edited and annotated by John Sampson, 1913. (transcription project)
• William Blake in his relation to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, by J. C. E. Bassalik-de Vries (1911)
• "An Early Appreciation of William Blake". The Library, volume 5, series 3 by K. A. Esdaile 1914
• Blake in The Sacred Wood, by T.S. Eliot, 1920.
• The Sanity of William Blake 1920 by Greville MacDonald
• Bibliography of William Blake 1921 by Geoffrey Keynes
• Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Lamb, etc., being selections from the Remains of Henry Crabb Robinson 1922 E D Morley
• The Writings of William Blake (complete edition) 3 volumes, 1925. by Geoffrey Keynes