Radical Blake: Afterlife and Influence from 1827

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by  Dent Shirley

Radical Blake
Influence and Afterlife from 1827
Shirley Dent and Jason Whittaker
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Contents
Acknowledgements viii 18
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Key to Abbreviations ix 1-0
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List of Plates xi 20
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1 Visionary Blake 11 gra
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3 Blake and Nationalism 67 Tro
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Acknowledgements
We would particularly like to thank David Worrall and Steve Clark for 18
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this book. Thanks are also due to Rebecca Mashayekh at Palgrave for 20
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ways in which we look at Blake’s books. Papers given at the ‘Blake and sit
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Blake and the Enlightenment’ at the University of Essex in 2000 o
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resulted in helpful comments from G. E. Bentley and Joseph Viscomi, se
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Herrick, John Metcalf, Emma Mason, Grainne Walsh, Chloe Peacock, gr
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Key to Abbreviations
All quotations from Blake’s writings follow The Complete Poetry and 18
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Prose of William Blake, revised edition, edited by David V. Erdman 1-0
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BB G. E. Bentley, Jnr., Blake Books at
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Thomson (B.V.) to which is added an essay on the
poems of William Blake, by the same author
BR G. E. Bentley, Jnr., Blake Records
Broadway Ballads William James Linton, Broadway Ballads
Collected Poems Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems 1947–1985
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