Selections from the
writings
of William Blake with an introductory essay by
Housman, Lawrence.
Housman, Lawrence.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11
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.
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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.
The Book of Thel. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Visions of the
Daughters of Albion. America. Europe. The First Book of Urizen.
The Song of Los. Milton. The Gates of Paradise. On Homer. On
Virgil: reproduced in facsimile by Muir, W. 1884–90.
The Book of Ahania. Facsimile by Griggs, W. 1892.
The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical. Ed. with
Lithographs of the Illustrated Prophetic Books and a Memoir and
Interpretation by Ellis, E. J. and Yeats, W. B. 3 vols. 1893.
Selections from the writings of William Blake with an introductory essay by
Housman, Lawrence. 1893.
The Poems of William Blake. Ed. by Yeats, W. B. [The Muses' Library. ]
1893.
The Prophetic Books of William Blake. Jerusalem. Ed. by Maclagan,
E. R. D. and Russell, A. G. B. 1904.
The Poetical Works of William Blake. A new and verbatim text from the
manuscript, engraved, and letterpress originals, with variorum readings
and bibliographical notes and prefaces by Sampson, John. Oxford,
1905.
The Lyrical Poems of Blake: text by Sampson, J. , introduction by Raleigh,
Walter. Oxford, 1906.
The Poetical Works of William Blake, ed. and annotated by Ellis, Edwin J.
2 vols. 1906.
28
5. L, XI.
## p. 434 (#456) ############################################
434
Bibliography
[CH.
The Prophetic Books of William Blake. Milton. Ed. by Maclagan, E. R. D.
and Russell, A. G. B. 1907.
Die Ethik der Fruchtbarkeit. Selections from Blake's works translated
into German by Taube, Otto von. Jena, 1907.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Ed. Stokes, F. G. 1911.
The Poetical Works of William Blake, including the unpublished French
Revolution, together with the Minor Prophetic Books, and Selections
from the Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem. Ed. with an Introduction
and Textual Notes by Sampson, John. Oxford, 1913.
III. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
Beeching, H. C. Blake's Religious Lyrics. Essays and Studies by Members
of the English Association. Vol. III. 1912.
Benoit, F. Un Maître de l'Art. Blake le Visionnaire. Lille, 1906.
Berger, P. William Blake; Mysticisme et Poésie. Paris, 1907.
Blake, W. Letters, together with a life by Tatham, Frederick, ed. by
Russell, A. G. B. 1906.
Brooke, Stopford A. Studies in Poetry. 1907.
Ellis, E. J. The Real Blake, a Portrait Biography. 1907.
Elton, Oliver. A Survey of English Literature, 1780–1830. 2 vols. 1912.
Garnett, Richard. William Blake, Painter and Poet. Portfolio, No. 22,
1895.
Gilchrist, Alexander. Life of Blake. 2 vols. 1863. 2nd edn. 1880. New
edn. 1906.
Hewlett, Henry E. Imperfect Genius: William Blake. Contemporary
Review. Vol. XXVIII, pp. 756-784. 1876.
Kassner, R. Die Mystik, die Künstler, und das Leben. Leipzig, 1900.
Moore, T. Sturge. William Blake and his Aesthetic. Art and Life.
1910.
Russell, A. G. B. The Engravings of William Blake. 1912.
Saintsbury, George. A History of English Prosody. Vol. 11. 1910.
Selincourt, Basil de. William Blake. 1909.
Story, A. T. William Blake. His Life, Character, and Genius. 1893.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. William Blake: a Critical Essay. 1868.
New edn. 1906.
Symons, Arthur. William Blake. 1907. The authoritative life of Blake,
with criticism, and reprints, from the following contemporary sources, of
entries concerning Blake: H. C. Robinson's Diary and Reminiscences;
B. H. Malkin's A Father's Memoirs of his Child, 1806; Lady Charlotte
Bury's Diary, 1820; as well as J. T. Smith's Biographical Sketch in the
second volume of Nollekens and his Times, 1828; and Allan Cunningham's
Life in his Lives of the most eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and
Architects, 1830.
Thomson, James (B. V. ]. Essay on the Poems of William Blake, appended
to his Shelley, a poem. 1885. Rptd in Biographical and Critical Studies.
1896.
Wicksteed, J. H. Blake's Vision of the Book of Job. 1910.
Yeats, W. B. Ideas of Good and Evil. 1903.
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Burns
435
CHAPTER X
BURNS
LESSER SCOTTISH VERSE
I. ROBERT BURNS
The Glenvidni
54 min
are b Gejolanta
in the custdag
A considerable number of the original MS copies of Burns's poems and
letters are still preserved in public libraries and other institutions. The
more important public collections are those in the British Museum (including
many of the songs contributed to Johnson’s Scots Musical Museum), the
collection formerly in the Liverpool Athenaeum, which has been gifted by its
purchaser to Scotland, the Edinburgh University Library, Edinburgh Cor-
poration Buildings, and Edinburgh Portrait Gallery, the Monument Museum
at Kilmarnock, and the Burns Cottage at Alloway. h
Bibliographies of the writings of Burns have been published as follows: 115. 5, ferneriqui
Angus, W. C. The printed works of Robert Burns. A bibliography in out-
the riversanal
line. Glasgow, 1899.
Ewing, J. C. Selected list of the works of Robert Burns, and of books upon se polako
,
his life and writings. 1899.
Bibliography of Robert Burns (to 1796]. [Privately ptd. ] 1909.
of tree breaks
M'Kie, J. The bibliography of Robert Burns. Kilmarnock, 1881.
A. Works
mo
Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock, 1786. Facsimile reprint. 2. 4.
Kilmarnock, 1867 and 1909.
Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh, 1787 (two impressions, in
one of which the word 'skinking' occurs as 'stinking').
The Third edition. London, 1787. Pirated edns, Belfast, 1787, and
Dublin, 1789 and 1790; another edn with Scots poems selected from the
works of Ferguson, R. , New York, 1788; other edns, Edinburgh, 1790
[rare), and Belfast, 1790.
The Scots Musical Museum. By Johnson, James. 5 vols. Edinburgh,
1787-1803. Ed. Stenhouse, Laing and Sharpe in 6 vols. 1833 and 4 vols.
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.
The Book of Thel. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Visions of the
Daughters of Albion. America. Europe. The First Book of Urizen.
The Song of Los. Milton. The Gates of Paradise. On Homer. On
Virgil: reproduced in facsimile by Muir, W. 1884–90.
The Book of Ahania. Facsimile by Griggs, W. 1892.
The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical. Ed. with
Lithographs of the Illustrated Prophetic Books and a Memoir and
Interpretation by Ellis, E. J. and Yeats, W. B. 3 vols. 1893.
Selections from the writings of William Blake with an introductory essay by
Housman, Lawrence. 1893.
The Poems of William Blake. Ed. by Yeats, W. B. [The Muses' Library. ]
1893.
The Prophetic Books of William Blake. Jerusalem. Ed. by Maclagan,
E. R. D. and Russell, A. G. B. 1904.
The Poetical Works of William Blake. A new and verbatim text from the
manuscript, engraved, and letterpress originals, with variorum readings
and bibliographical notes and prefaces by Sampson, John. Oxford,
1905.
The Lyrical Poems of Blake: text by Sampson, J. , introduction by Raleigh,
Walter. Oxford, 1906.
The Poetical Works of William Blake, ed. and annotated by Ellis, Edwin J.
2 vols. 1906.
28
5. L, XI.
## p. 434 (#456) ############################################
434
Bibliography
[CH.
The Prophetic Books of William Blake. Milton. Ed. by Maclagan, E. R. D.
and Russell, A. G. B. 1907.
Die Ethik der Fruchtbarkeit. Selections from Blake's works translated
into German by Taube, Otto von. Jena, 1907.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Ed. Stokes, F. G. 1911.
The Poetical Works of William Blake, including the unpublished French
Revolution, together with the Minor Prophetic Books, and Selections
from the Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem. Ed. with an Introduction
and Textual Notes by Sampson, John. Oxford, 1913.
III. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
Beeching, H. C. Blake's Religious Lyrics. Essays and Studies by Members
of the English Association. Vol. III. 1912.
Benoit, F. Un Maître de l'Art. Blake le Visionnaire. Lille, 1906.
Berger, P. William Blake; Mysticisme et Poésie. Paris, 1907.
Blake, W. Letters, together with a life by Tatham, Frederick, ed. by
Russell, A. G. B. 1906.
Brooke, Stopford A. Studies in Poetry. 1907.
Ellis, E. J. The Real Blake, a Portrait Biography. 1907.
Elton, Oliver. A Survey of English Literature, 1780–1830. 2 vols. 1912.
Garnett, Richard. William Blake, Painter and Poet. Portfolio, No. 22,
1895.
Gilchrist, Alexander. Life of Blake. 2 vols. 1863. 2nd edn. 1880. New
edn. 1906.
Hewlett, Henry E. Imperfect Genius: William Blake. Contemporary
Review. Vol. XXVIII, pp. 756-784. 1876.
Kassner, R. Die Mystik, die Künstler, und das Leben. Leipzig, 1900.
Moore, T. Sturge. William Blake and his Aesthetic. Art and Life.
1910.
Russell, A. G. B. The Engravings of William Blake. 1912.
Saintsbury, George. A History of English Prosody. Vol. 11. 1910.
Selincourt, Basil de. William Blake. 1909.
Story, A. T. William Blake. His Life, Character, and Genius. 1893.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. William Blake: a Critical Essay. 1868.
New edn. 1906.
Symons, Arthur. William Blake. 1907. The authoritative life of Blake,
with criticism, and reprints, from the following contemporary sources, of
entries concerning Blake: H. C. Robinson's Diary and Reminiscences;
B. H. Malkin's A Father's Memoirs of his Child, 1806; Lady Charlotte
Bury's Diary, 1820; as well as J. T. Smith's Biographical Sketch in the
second volume of Nollekens and his Times, 1828; and Allan Cunningham's
Life in his Lives of the most eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and
Architects, 1830.
Thomson, James (B. V. ]. Essay on the Poems of William Blake, appended
to his Shelley, a poem. 1885. Rptd in Biographical and Critical Studies.
1896.
Wicksteed, J. H. Blake's Vision of the Book of Job. 1910.
Yeats, W. B. Ideas of Good and Evil. 1903.
## p. 435 (#457) ############################################
x]
Burns
435
CHAPTER X
BURNS
LESSER SCOTTISH VERSE
I. ROBERT BURNS
The Glenvidni
54 min
are b Gejolanta
in the custdag
A considerable number of the original MS copies of Burns's poems and
letters are still preserved in public libraries and other institutions. The
more important public collections are those in the British Museum (including
many of the songs contributed to Johnson’s Scots Musical Museum), the
collection formerly in the Liverpool Athenaeum, which has been gifted by its
purchaser to Scotland, the Edinburgh University Library, Edinburgh Cor-
poration Buildings, and Edinburgh Portrait Gallery, the Monument Museum
at Kilmarnock, and the Burns Cottage at Alloway. h
Bibliographies of the writings of Burns have been published as follows: 115. 5, ferneriqui
Angus, W. C. The printed works of Robert Burns. A bibliography in out-
the riversanal
line. Glasgow, 1899.
Ewing, J. C. Selected list of the works of Robert Burns, and of books upon se polako
,
his life and writings. 1899.
Bibliography of Robert Burns (to 1796]. [Privately ptd. ] 1909.
of tree breaks
M'Kie, J. The bibliography of Robert Burns. Kilmarnock, 1881.
A. Works
mo
Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock, 1786. Facsimile reprint. 2. 4.
Kilmarnock, 1867 and 1909.
Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh, 1787 (two impressions, in
one of which the word 'skinking' occurs as 'stinking').
The Third edition. London, 1787. Pirated edns, Belfast, 1787, and
Dublin, 1789 and 1790; another edn with Scots poems selected from the
works of Ferguson, R. , New York, 1788; other edns, Edinburgh, 1790
[rare), and Belfast, 1790.
The Scots Musical Museum. By Johnson, James. 5 vols. Edinburgh,
1787-1803. Ed. Stenhouse, Laing and Sharpe in 6 vols. 1833 and 4 vols.
