MANUSCRIPTS
AND ORIGINAL ISSUES
A.
A.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11
.
.
.
W.
.
.
s: or the Rural Reflections of a Welch poet.
1746.
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[ch.
Bibliography
A collection of poems principally consisting of the most celebrated pieces of
Sir C. H. W. 1763.
The Odes of Sir C. H. Williams. 1775.
Correspondance de Cathérine II et de Sir C. Hanbury Williams, 1756-7.
(Russian and French. ) Moscow, 1909.
Coxe, W. Historical Tour in Monmouthshire. 1801.
Hutchinson, John. Herefordshire Biographies. 1890.
Helen Maria Williams
Poems. 2 vols. 1786. 2nd edn. 1791.
Poems . . . and original sonnets by H. M. Williams. 1803.
Recueil de Poésies, extraites des ouvrages d' H. M. W. ; traduit de l'Anglais
par M. S. de Boufflers, et par M. Esmónard. Paris, 1808.
Poems on various subjects. With introductory remarks on the present state
of science and literature in France. 1823.
Edwin and Eltruda, a legendary tale. 1782.
An Ode on the Peace. 1783.
Peru, a poem. 1784.
Ode to Peace. [1786. ]
Julia, a novel; interspersed with . . . poetical pieces. 2 vols. 1790.
Letters written in France in the summer of 1790, to a Friend in England.
1790. French edn. Paris, 1791.
A Farewell for two years to England. A poem. 1791.
Letters on the French Revolution, written in France, in the summer of 1790,
to a friend in England; containing various anecdotes . . . and Memoirs of
Mons. and Madame Du F. . . . Boston, 1791.
Letters containing a sketch of the Politics of France from the thirty-first of
May 1793 till the twenty-eighth of July, 1794. 2 vols. 1795. French
edn. Paris (1795? ].
Paul and Virginia. [Translated by H. M. W. ] 1795.
A tour in Switzerland; or a view of the present state of . . . those Cantons, with
comparative sketches of the present state of Paris. 2 vols. 1798.
The History of Perourou; or the Bellows-Mender. [Translated from the
French by H. M. W. ) Dublin, 1801.
The political and confidential correspondence of Lewis the Sixteenth. Fr.
and Eng. With observations on each letter. 1803.
A refutation of the libel on the memory of the late King of France. 1804.
Verses addressed by H. M. W. to her two nephews, on Saint Helen's day.
Paris, 1809.
Personal narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Conti-
nent. . . translated into English by H. M. W. 1814.
Researches concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient In-
habitants of America. . . translated into English by H. M. W. 1814.
On the late persecution of the Protestants in the South of France. 1816.
The Leper of the City of Aoste. Translated from the French by H. M. W.
1817.
The Charter. Lines addressed by H. M. W. to her Nephew, A. C. L.
Coquerel, on his wedding-day. Paris, 1819.
Letters on the events which have passed in France, since the Restoration in
1815. 1819.
Alger, J. E. Englishmen in the French Revolution. 1889.
Coquerel, J. G. Introduction to Souvenirs de la Révolution. 1827.
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Lesser Poets
431
William Woty
Campanologia: a Poem in praise of ringing. 1761.
Muses' Advice addressed to the Poets of the Age. 1761.
The Blossoms of Helicon. 1763.
The Poetical Calendar. . . . Written and selected by F. Fawkes and W. Woty.
1763.
Church Langton: a poem. Leicester (1767 ? ].
Poetical Works. 2 vols. 1770.
The Female Advocate, a poem. 1770. 1771.
The Stage; a poetical epistle to a friend. Derby (1770? ].
The Estate Orator: a Town Eclogue. 1774.
Particular Providence; a poetical essay. 1774.
Poems on Several Occasions. Derby, 1780.
Fugitive and Original Poems. Derby, 1786.
Poetical Amusements. Nottingham, 1789.
G. A. B. AND A. T. B.
CHAPTER IX
BLAKE
A full bibliography of Blake's works is in preparation by Mr Geoffrey
Keynes.
I.
MANUSCRIPTS AND ORIGINAL ISSUES
A. MSS.
Seven-page MS, without title or date, containing two prose fragments, the
first and longer ptd by W. M. Rossetti as irregular verse in The
Monthly Review (August 1903), under the title of The Passions. The
remaining fragment has never been ptd as a whole.
[An Island in the Moon). MS without title or date: circa 1784. Ptd by
Ellis, E. J. , The Real Blake, pp. 67-82.
Tiriel, MS by Mr Blake. n. d. ; circa 1788.
The Four Zoas. The Torments of Love and Jealousy in the Death and
Judgment of Albion, the Ancient Man, by William Blake, 1797. This
is the revised form, made circa 1800. In the earlier version (1797), the
title-page read: Vala or The Death and Judgment of the Ancient Man.
A Dream of Nine Nights by William Blake 1797.
Rossetti MS, also known as the MS Book, or, less correctly, as Ideas of Good
and Evil. Originally a sketch-book, it was used, from time to time during
a period of some eighteen years, for the transcription or drafting of
verse and prose. The principal literary contents, in chronological order,
are (1) certain of the Songs of Experience and lyrics of the same period
(1793-4); (2) longer and more definitely symbolic poems, and epigrams
on art and artists (1800-3); (3) prose entries: Advertisement to
Blake's Canterbury Pilgrims from Chaucer, containing anecdotes of
Artists, printed as Public Address by D. G. Rossetti. For the year 1810:
Additions to Blake's Catalogue of Pictures etc. , which Rossetti has
renamed A Vision of the Last Judgment; (4) The Everlasting Gospel
(circa 1810).
A full bibliographical description of the Rossetti MS is given in
Blake's Poetical Works, ed. John Sampson, Oxford, 1905.
## p. 432 (#454) ############################################
432
[CH.
Bibliography
Pickering MS, containing fair transcripts of ten poems, written circa 1800-4.
See Sampson, op. cit.
Important matter is found in Blake's marginalia to the following works:
Swedenborg. The Wisdom of Angels concerning Divine Love and Wisdom.
Edn of 1788. Ptd Ellis, E. J. , The Real Blake, pp. 109-115.
Lavater's Aphorisms. Edn of 1788. Ellis, pp. 123-151.
Reynold's Discourses. 3 vols. 1798. Ellis, pp. 371-396.
Bacon's Essays. 1798. Gilchrist, vol. I, pp. 267-9.
Wordsworth's Poems. Edn of 1815. Ellis, pp. 415-419.
Dr Thornton's pamphlet on the Lord's Prayer. 1827. Ellis, pp. 365-7.
B. Works printed by Blake's method of relief-etching,
unless otherwise stated
There is No Natural Religion.
No perfect copy of this work is known. W. Muir in his facsimile
has rearranged the plates of the copy in the Print Room of the British
Museum, and an imperfect set formerly in his own possession, combining
them into a tractate in two parts. Sampson (Blake's Poetical Works.
Oxford edition, 1913) follows the same arrangement in the main.
All Religions are One.
A series of plates in the possession of the Linnell family, with the
title-plate supplied from the set formerly owned by W. M. Muir: see
Sampson, op. cit.
, pp. xxvi-xxviii.
Songs of Innocence. 1789. The Author and Printer W. Blake.
The Book of Thel. The Author and Printer Willm Blake 1789.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. No date, but apparently written in
1790.
A Song of Liberty. No date, circa 1792.
Visions of the Daughters of Albion. The Eye sees more than the Heart
knows. Printed by Willm Blake, 1793.
America, a Prophecy. Lambeth. Printed by William Blake in the year
1793.
Songs of Experience. 1794. The Author and Printer, W. Blake.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of
the Human Soul. No date, but circa 1794.
Europe, a Prophecy. Lambeth. Printed by Will. Blake, 1794.
The First Book of Urizen. Lambeth. Printed by Will. Blake, 1794.
The Book of Los. Lambeth. Printed by W. Blake, 1795. Etched text.
The Book of Ahanja. Lambeth. Printed by W. Blake, 1795. Etched
text.
The Song of Los. Lambeth. Printed by W. Blake, 1795.
Milton, a Poem in 2 Books. The Author and Printer W. Blake. 1804. To
Justify the Ways of God to Men.
Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion, 1804. Printed by W. Blake,
Sth Molton St. In both Milton and Jerusalem, the date on the title-page,
1804, relates to the commencement, not to the completion of the labour of
engraving.
For the Sexes. The Gates of Paradise. No date. [1805-10. ] A number
of verses accompanying a revised issue of the earlier plates For Children.
The Gates of Paradise, 1793. The symbolism of the verses is similar in
character to that of Jerusalem.
[Laocoon Aphorisms), detached sentences written about a line-engraving of
the Laocoon. No date, circa 1818.
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IX]
Blake
433
:
On Homer's Poetry. On Virgil. No date, but clearly the product of Blake's
latest period.
The Ghost of Abel, A Revelation In the Visions of Jehovah Seen by William
Blake. Colophon: 1822. W. Blake's Original Stereotype was 1788.
C. Works printed in ordinary type
Poetical Sketches. By W. B. London, Printed in the Year M DCC LXXX III.
The French Revolution. A Poem, in Seven Books. Book the First. London:
Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St Paul's Church-yard. M DCC XCI.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures, Poetical and Historical Inventions.
Painted by William Blake, in Water Colours, Being the Ancient Method
of Fresco Painting Restored: and Drawings, For Public Inspection, and
for Sale by Private Contract. London: Printed by D. N. Shury, 7, Berwick-
Street, Soho, for J. Blake, 28, Broad-Street, Golden Square, 1809.
Works lost or not identified:
Outhoun. See Gilchrist's Life, vol. 11, p. 262.
Barry: a Poem. Cf. Rossetti MS, p. 60.
Book of Moonlight. Ibid. p. 46.
II. MODERN EDITIONS
Songs of Innocence and Experience, with a preface containing a memoir of
Blake by Wilkinson, J. J. Garth. 1839.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Facsimile by Hotten. 1868.
The Poems of William Blake, comprising Songs of Innocence and of
Experience, together with Poetical Sketches and some copyright poems
not in any other edition. [Ed. , with an introduction, by Shepherd, R. H. ]
1874.
The Poetical Works of William Blake, Lyrical and Miscellaneous. Ed. with
a Prefatory Memoir by Rossetti, William Michael. 1874.
Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion. Pearson's facsimile.
1877.
There is No Natural Religion. Songs of Innocence. Songs of Experience.
## p. 430 (#452) ############################################
430
[ch.
Bibliography
A collection of poems principally consisting of the most celebrated pieces of
Sir C. H. W. 1763.
The Odes of Sir C. H. Williams. 1775.
Correspondance de Cathérine II et de Sir C. Hanbury Williams, 1756-7.
(Russian and French. ) Moscow, 1909.
Coxe, W. Historical Tour in Monmouthshire. 1801.
Hutchinson, John. Herefordshire Biographies. 1890.
Helen Maria Williams
Poems. 2 vols. 1786. 2nd edn. 1791.
Poems . . . and original sonnets by H. M. Williams. 1803.
Recueil de Poésies, extraites des ouvrages d' H. M. W. ; traduit de l'Anglais
par M. S. de Boufflers, et par M. Esmónard. Paris, 1808.
Poems on various subjects. With introductory remarks on the present state
of science and literature in France. 1823.
Edwin and Eltruda, a legendary tale. 1782.
An Ode on the Peace. 1783.
Peru, a poem. 1784.
Ode to Peace. [1786. ]
Julia, a novel; interspersed with . . . poetical pieces. 2 vols. 1790.
Letters written in France in the summer of 1790, to a Friend in England.
1790. French edn. Paris, 1791.
A Farewell for two years to England. A poem. 1791.
Letters on the French Revolution, written in France, in the summer of 1790,
to a friend in England; containing various anecdotes . . . and Memoirs of
Mons. and Madame Du F. . . . Boston, 1791.
Letters containing a sketch of the Politics of France from the thirty-first of
May 1793 till the twenty-eighth of July, 1794. 2 vols. 1795. French
edn. Paris (1795? ].
Paul and Virginia. [Translated by H. M. W. ] 1795.
A tour in Switzerland; or a view of the present state of . . . those Cantons, with
comparative sketches of the present state of Paris. 2 vols. 1798.
The History of Perourou; or the Bellows-Mender. [Translated from the
French by H. M. W. ) Dublin, 1801.
The political and confidential correspondence of Lewis the Sixteenth. Fr.
and Eng. With observations on each letter. 1803.
A refutation of the libel on the memory of the late King of France. 1804.
Verses addressed by H. M. W. to her two nephews, on Saint Helen's day.
Paris, 1809.
Personal narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Conti-
nent. . . translated into English by H. M. W. 1814.
Researches concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient In-
habitants of America. . . translated into English by H. M. W. 1814.
On the late persecution of the Protestants in the South of France. 1816.
The Leper of the City of Aoste. Translated from the French by H. M. W.
1817.
The Charter. Lines addressed by H. M. W. to her Nephew, A. C. L.
Coquerel, on his wedding-day. Paris, 1819.
Letters on the events which have passed in France, since the Restoration in
1815. 1819.
Alger, J. E. Englishmen in the French Revolution. 1889.
Coquerel, J. G. Introduction to Souvenirs de la Révolution. 1827.
## p. 431 (#453) ############################################
VIII]
Lesser Poets
431
William Woty
Campanologia: a Poem in praise of ringing. 1761.
Muses' Advice addressed to the Poets of the Age. 1761.
The Blossoms of Helicon. 1763.
The Poetical Calendar. . . . Written and selected by F. Fawkes and W. Woty.
1763.
Church Langton: a poem. Leicester (1767 ? ].
Poetical Works. 2 vols. 1770.
The Female Advocate, a poem. 1770. 1771.
The Stage; a poetical epistle to a friend. Derby (1770? ].
The Estate Orator: a Town Eclogue. 1774.
Particular Providence; a poetical essay. 1774.
Poems on Several Occasions. Derby, 1780.
Fugitive and Original Poems. Derby, 1786.
Poetical Amusements. Nottingham, 1789.
G. A. B. AND A. T. B.
CHAPTER IX
BLAKE
A full bibliography of Blake's works is in preparation by Mr Geoffrey
Keynes.
I.
MANUSCRIPTS AND ORIGINAL ISSUES
A. MSS.
Seven-page MS, without title or date, containing two prose fragments, the
first and longer ptd by W. M. Rossetti as irregular verse in The
Monthly Review (August 1903), under the title of The Passions. The
remaining fragment has never been ptd as a whole.
[An Island in the Moon). MS without title or date: circa 1784. Ptd by
Ellis, E. J. , The Real Blake, pp. 67-82.
Tiriel, MS by Mr Blake. n. d. ; circa 1788.
The Four Zoas. The Torments of Love and Jealousy in the Death and
Judgment of Albion, the Ancient Man, by William Blake, 1797. This
is the revised form, made circa 1800. In the earlier version (1797), the
title-page read: Vala or The Death and Judgment of the Ancient Man.
A Dream of Nine Nights by William Blake 1797.
Rossetti MS, also known as the MS Book, or, less correctly, as Ideas of Good
and Evil. Originally a sketch-book, it was used, from time to time during
a period of some eighteen years, for the transcription or drafting of
verse and prose. The principal literary contents, in chronological order,
are (1) certain of the Songs of Experience and lyrics of the same period
(1793-4); (2) longer and more definitely symbolic poems, and epigrams
on art and artists (1800-3); (3) prose entries: Advertisement to
Blake's Canterbury Pilgrims from Chaucer, containing anecdotes of
Artists, printed as Public Address by D. G. Rossetti. For the year 1810:
Additions to Blake's Catalogue of Pictures etc. , which Rossetti has
renamed A Vision of the Last Judgment; (4) The Everlasting Gospel
(circa 1810).
A full bibliographical description of the Rossetti MS is given in
Blake's Poetical Works, ed. John Sampson, Oxford, 1905.
## p. 432 (#454) ############################################
432
[CH.
Bibliography
Pickering MS, containing fair transcripts of ten poems, written circa 1800-4.
See Sampson, op. cit.
Important matter is found in Blake's marginalia to the following works:
Swedenborg. The Wisdom of Angels concerning Divine Love and Wisdom.
Edn of 1788. Ptd Ellis, E. J. , The Real Blake, pp. 109-115.
Lavater's Aphorisms. Edn of 1788. Ellis, pp. 123-151.
Reynold's Discourses. 3 vols. 1798. Ellis, pp. 371-396.
Bacon's Essays. 1798. Gilchrist, vol. I, pp. 267-9.
Wordsworth's Poems. Edn of 1815. Ellis, pp. 415-419.
Dr Thornton's pamphlet on the Lord's Prayer. 1827. Ellis, pp. 365-7.
B. Works printed by Blake's method of relief-etching,
unless otherwise stated
There is No Natural Religion.
No perfect copy of this work is known. W. Muir in his facsimile
has rearranged the plates of the copy in the Print Room of the British
Museum, and an imperfect set formerly in his own possession, combining
them into a tractate in two parts. Sampson (Blake's Poetical Works.
Oxford edition, 1913) follows the same arrangement in the main.
All Religions are One.
A series of plates in the possession of the Linnell family, with the
title-plate supplied from the set formerly owned by W. M. Muir: see
Sampson, op. cit.
, pp. xxvi-xxviii.
Songs of Innocence. 1789. The Author and Printer W. Blake.
The Book of Thel. The Author and Printer Willm Blake 1789.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. No date, but apparently written in
1790.
A Song of Liberty. No date, circa 1792.
Visions of the Daughters of Albion. The Eye sees more than the Heart
knows. Printed by Willm Blake, 1793.
America, a Prophecy. Lambeth. Printed by William Blake in the year
1793.
Songs of Experience. 1794. The Author and Printer, W. Blake.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of
the Human Soul. No date, but circa 1794.
Europe, a Prophecy. Lambeth. Printed by Will. Blake, 1794.
The First Book of Urizen. Lambeth. Printed by Will. Blake, 1794.
The Book of Los. Lambeth. Printed by W. Blake, 1795. Etched text.
The Book of Ahanja. Lambeth. Printed by W. Blake, 1795. Etched
text.
The Song of Los. Lambeth. Printed by W. Blake, 1795.
Milton, a Poem in 2 Books. The Author and Printer W. Blake. 1804. To
Justify the Ways of God to Men.
Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion, 1804. Printed by W. Blake,
Sth Molton St. In both Milton and Jerusalem, the date on the title-page,
1804, relates to the commencement, not to the completion of the labour of
engraving.
For the Sexes. The Gates of Paradise. No date. [1805-10. ] A number
of verses accompanying a revised issue of the earlier plates For Children.
The Gates of Paradise, 1793. The symbolism of the verses is similar in
character to that of Jerusalem.
[Laocoon Aphorisms), detached sentences written about a line-engraving of
the Laocoon. No date, circa 1818.
## p. 433 (#455) ############################################
IX]
Blake
433
:
On Homer's Poetry. On Virgil. No date, but clearly the product of Blake's
latest period.
The Ghost of Abel, A Revelation In the Visions of Jehovah Seen by William
Blake. Colophon: 1822. W. Blake's Original Stereotype was 1788.
C. Works printed in ordinary type
Poetical Sketches. By W. B. London, Printed in the Year M DCC LXXX III.
The French Revolution. A Poem, in Seven Books. Book the First. London:
Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St Paul's Church-yard. M DCC XCI.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures, Poetical and Historical Inventions.
Painted by William Blake, in Water Colours, Being the Ancient Method
of Fresco Painting Restored: and Drawings, For Public Inspection, and
for Sale by Private Contract. London: Printed by D. N. Shury, 7, Berwick-
Street, Soho, for J. Blake, 28, Broad-Street, Golden Square, 1809.
Works lost or not identified:
Outhoun. See Gilchrist's Life, vol. 11, p. 262.
Barry: a Poem. Cf. Rossetti MS, p. 60.
Book of Moonlight. Ibid. p. 46.
II. MODERN EDITIONS
Songs of Innocence and Experience, with a preface containing a memoir of
Blake by Wilkinson, J. J. Garth. 1839.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Facsimile by Hotten. 1868.
The Poems of William Blake, comprising Songs of Innocence and of
Experience, together with Poetical Sketches and some copyright poems
not in any other edition. [Ed. , with an introduction, by Shepherd, R. H. ]
1874.
The Poetical Works of William Blake, Lyrical and Miscellaneous. Ed. with
a Prefatory Memoir by Rossetti, William Michael. 1874.
Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion. Pearson's facsimile.
1877.
There is No Natural Religion. Songs of Innocence. Songs of Experience.
