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A R T I C L E

“The Eternal Wheels of Intellect”: Dissertations on

William Blake

G. E. Bentley, Jr.

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 4, Spring 1979, pp. 224-

" T H E ETERNAL WHEELS

OF INTELLECT": DISSERTATIONS

O N W I L L I A M B L A K E

G. E. BENTLEY. JR.

W

i l l i a m Blake has been the subject of doctoral dissertations f o r over s i x t y years, and a s u f f i c i e n t number have been completed and accepted—over two hundred—to make i t possible to draw some i n t e r e s t i n g conclusions about patterns of i n t e r e s t in William Blake and about patterns in higher education. In general, the conclusions which these facts make possible, at least to me, confirm what one might have guessed but supply the facts to j u s t i f y one's guesses.

Before one places much weight upon e i t h e r the facts or the conclusions based upon them, however, one must recognize the fragmentary nature of our evidence and whence i t comes. About 60% of those theses of which I have records are l i s t e d in Dissertation Abstracts (1938-1969) and Dissertation Abstracts International (1969 f f. ) ; about 60% are i n Blake Books (1977); each work is supplemented by the Comprehensive Dissertation Query Service of University Microfilms which includes many d i s s e r t a t i o n s not in DA and DAI; and a number come from elsewhere.^2 No Blake dissertations at u n i v e r s i t i e s outside North America are l i s t e d in DA, DAI,yor the Query Service, and a number of u n i v e r s i t i e s in North America, such as Harvard and Chicago, apparently never or rarely l i s t t h e i r d i s s e r t a t i o n s in DA or DAI. For Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s at i n s t i t u t i o n s such as these, or at those which occasionally do not l i s t t h e i r d i s s e r t a t i o n s there, or f o r d i s s e r t a t i o n s (of which there are scores recorded here) l i s t e d in DA and DAI^3 only three, f i v e or more years a f t e r they were accepted for the degree, the information is l i k e l y to be accumulated here only in somewhat random fashion, and i t is especially l i k e l y to be incomplete f o r the l a s t few years, say 1973-78. In p a r t i c u l a r , i t

seems l i k e l y that there were more dissertations on Blake w r i t t e n in Germany and Japan than are recorded here.

The national d i s t r i b u t i o n of the u n i v e r s i t i e s at which the degrees were awarded is s t r i k i n g : Canada 14 (mostly from Toronto), England 24 (mostly Oxford, Cambridge, and London), Finland 1 , France 3 Germany 4 , India 3, Ireland 1 , Japan 2, New Zealand' 1 , Scotland 1 , Switzerland 4, the United States 204. I have no record of Blake doctoral dissertations in A u s t r a l i a , I t a l y , or South A f r i c a. About 96% are from the English-speaking world, 14 which is not s u r p r i s i n g , and about 77% are from the United States which I suppose is not r e a l l y s u r p r i s i n g e i t h e r , considering that there must be about as many Ph.D. granting u n i v e r s i t i e s i n the United States as in most of the rest of the world put together. Of the some 23% from outside the U. S. A., a curiously high proportion has been published: fourteen out of f i f t y - e i g h t. The proportion is doubtless i n f l a t e d because information about such dissertations is l i k e l y to come to hand most r e a d i l y when they are published—publication is sometimes the condition of t h e i r being recorded. I don't think i t would be a f a i r conclusion that dissertations w r i t t e n on Blake outside the United States are, by i n t e r n a t i o n a l standards, more publishable. Though the minimum Ph.D. standard i n Europe and New Zealand is probably higher than that in the U. S. , these countries have produced no Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s so i n f l u e n t i a l as those in the United States, o f , say, Mark Schorer, Margaret Ruth Lowery, and Albert S. Roe.

In a l l , some hundred u n i v e r s i t i e s awarded about two hundred s i x t y doctorates f o r dissertations on Blake, an average of about 2.4 apiece. The l i s t of

to 16% f o r the l a s t one f o r which the figures are probably nearly complete (1960-69). The f i r s t Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s published seem to be l i t t l e more than vanity- or must-print-to-submit p u b l i c a t i o n s , and u n t i l 1940-49 there are so few Blake dissertations that extrapolating trends from them is not very meaningful. ( I t i s , however, s t r i k i n g that the only two Blake dissertations of the 1930s which were published, Lowery's and Schorer's, were among the most i n f l u e n t i a l ever to be p r i n t e d. ) The figures (37% to 16%) f o r the twenty published d i s s e r t a t i o n s of 1940-69 a r e , however, steadier and more r e l i a b l e and indicate that two or three in ten of the Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s f i n i s h e d then were turned i n t o books. Assuming a continuation of the popularity of Blake and a steady demand f o r books of a l l kinds {very problematical assumptions, of course), we may expect something l i k e 15% to 20% of the one hundred f o r t y - s i x Blake theses f i n i s h e d thus f a r in the 1970s to be published--or twelve more than have yet appeared. I f , as in the past, a t h i r d of these prove to be d i s t i n g u i s h e d , we have great things to look forward t o.

Of two hundred s i x t y Blake theses, more than h a l f were f i n i s h e d since 1970; the average author of a Blake Ph.D. is not only l i v i n g but, i f an academic in North America, probably does not yet have tenure. More Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s were completed in 1974 than i n the e n t i r e period from 1911 to 1950. The chart in Table I I (see below) indicates the pattern of completion of Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s , with a scattering of none to six per year from 1911 u n t i l 1967.

The great boom i n Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s began in the 1960s and reached a peak in 1968-74, when there were twice as many Blake theses completed (153) as had ever been made before altogether (70). From 1969 to 1976 (the l a s t year f o r which the figures are probably f a i r l y complete), on an average eighteen Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s were completed per year, better than one a month. Blake c l e a r l y appealed to the troubled young s p i r i t s of the 1960s in the United States. Perhaps today he is in danger of becoming a figure of the Establishment. Certainly he is part of the Academic Establishment, and there is an orthodoxy in Blake studies as in work on more conventional authors.

Or perhaps a l l the best topics have been taken, and students hesitate to embark on a sea as large as that of Blake scholarship. I t must seem d i f f i c u l t to f i n d a plausible topic in Blake which has not previously been treated responsibly, and some of the recent theses seem to be s t r e t c h i n g p l a u s i b i l i t y to cover a good deal of rather s u r p r i s i n g matter. Ignoring the Ph.D. d i s s e r t a t i o n s at Rutgers ( e. g. , G. L. Waters) as being not "theses" at a l l but merely c o l l e c t i o n s of quite unrelated essays, there are s t i l l some s u r p r i s i n g theses produced, often at s u r p r i s i n g places. The length varies from 56 pages (Bassalik-de Vries, Dickinson) to three volumes (Gabbett-Mulhallen, P. S. Wilson), but i t seems to be shortening. A good number are under two hundred pages, and not a few^5 are under 155 pages; one reason there are more Blake theses in 1968-75 may be that they tend to be shorter than previous d i s s e r t a t i o n s

and presumably easier to complete. In the 1930s and 1940s there was a tendency to give evocative but not very descriptive t i t l e s to Blake books, such as Windows of the Morning or Fearful Symmetry or Infinity on the Anvil. Recent Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s have been more e x p l i c i t , i f no less modish. Their t i t l e s reverberate with c r i t i c a l c u l t words such as Alienation (1971), Apocalypse (1969 [ 2 ] , 1970, 1972, 1973, 1976), Archetype (1973, 1974, 1976), Dynamics (1973, 1976), Kinetic Imagery (1975), Strategy (1972), Symbology (1975 [ 2 ] ) , and, of course, Vision (1963, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977). Some deal with p e c u l i a r l y Blakean problems, such as the r e l a t i o n s h i p of t e x t and design, or the nature of the Form or Structure of his w r i t i n g s , 6 and some deal w i t h problems peculiar to t h i s generation, such as the role of the body in Blake (Christian [1973], Frosch [1969], Kostelanetz [1967]) or the r o l e of women (Derderian [1974], M. E. White [1972], Full b r i g h t [1973]). Many are p e r f e c t l y res- ponsibly on the borders of the Blake w o r l d , because they are tracing Blake's influence on successors such as W. B. Yeats or D. H. Lawrence or James Joyce or D. G. R o s s e t t i , or because they see Blake as merely part of a long t r a d i t i o n o f , say, Millenarian L i t e r a - ture (Gershgoren) or Occult Traditions (Schuchard), or because Blake's poems are merely the context of a musical composition (Karvonen, W. M. Smith). More commonly, Blake is yoked with some other author ( e. g. , Tagore), often rather a r b i t r a r i l y , to p u l l a d i s s e r t a t i o n which appears to be composed of f a i r l y discrete p a r t s , with wheels of d i f f e r e n t sizes. The excuse may be common imagery, 7 say serpents ( P e d r i n i ) , or p a r a l l e l subjects of p o e t r y , 8 or contemporary responses to the same phenomenon (Armah, K l i n e , Lowenstein). But the r e s u l t s are not l i k e l y to i l l u m i n a t e Blake very much, whatever they may do to t h e i r authors. So f a r as the abstracts show, at any r a t e , the purpose often seems to be to indicate the author's ingenuity rather than to throw new l i g h t on Blake or on the other poets dealt w i t h.

Almost a l l the two hundred s i x t y Blake dissertations have been l i t e r a r y in t h e i r o r i e n t a t i o n — i n d e e d , almost a l l are f o r English Departments, though one is a Doctorate i n Religion (Grimes), another in Sociology (Shain), and a t h i r d i s a Ph.D. in "The History of Consciousness" (Singh). Only about 10% seem to take much account of the f a c t that Blake was p r i m a r i l y a visual a r t i s t and that a l l the poems he published were i l l u s t r a t e d or " i l l u m i n a t e d. " Of the score of d i s s e r t a t i o n s which consider his visual work e x t e n s i v e l y , 9 only eight seem to be primarily concerned with the designs, and only three (Bindman, Lindberg, Roe) seem to be by a r t - h i s t o r i a n s. And even the d i s s e r t a t i o n s concerned p r i m a r i l y with Blake's designs mostly concentrate on his b o o k - i l l u s t r a t i o n s , to Young, Job, Dante, Gray, M i l t o n , and Bunyan. Blake has never been treated very seriously by the world of a r t - h i s t o r i a n s , and the r e s u l t i n g lacunae in Blake studies have largely been f i l l e d , faute de mieux., by l i t e r a r y scholars venturing in strange seas. Just as very few Comparative L i t e r a t u r e scholars are f u l l y q u a l i f i e d i n both t h e i r l i t e r a - t u r e s , very few Blake scholars (indeed none, so f a r as I know) are f u l l y q u a l i f i e d in both genres of l i t e r a t u r e and a r t. For a r e a l l y s a t i s f y i n g t r e a t -

ment of his works in Illuminated P r i n t i n g , we may have to wait f o r a double doctor.

The danger of depending upon Dissertation Abstracts or Dissertation Abstracts International f o r a complete l i s t of dissertations of Blake is manifest. Not only do they exclude a l l the dissertations here from i n s t i t u t i o n s outside North America, but they systematically omit some of the most distinguished U. S. u n i v e r s i t i e s (such as Harvard and Chicago), while some u n i v e r s i t i e s do not record a l l t h e i r d i s s e r t a t i o n s. Theses from f o r t y - t h r e e u n i v e r s i t i e s occasionally or r e g u l a r l y do not appear in DA and DAI so f a r as Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s are concerned, including Berkeley, Cambridge, Chicago, C o r n e l l , Edinburgh, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, London, Oxford, Paris, Toronto, Wisconsin, and Yale; and 40% of the Ph.D. d i s s e r t a - tions l i s t e d here are not i n DA or DAI. And of course many d i s s e r t a t i o n s , often the best, are not l i s t e d u n t i l three to f i v e years a f t e r they are com- pleted. We may have to depend upon DA or DAI, but we should reconnize that they omit a good many Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s , 1 0^ including some of the best. The danger of redundancy in Blake theses and s t u d i e s 1 1 is therefore a s i g n i f i c a n t one.

Of the two hundred s i x t y Blake theses, at l e a s t seventy-eight (30%) are by women. Of these, sixteen (22%) were completed in 1963-69 and f i f t y more (64%) are from 1970-77. For the period 1970-77, 35% of the Blake theses are by women. Of the nine r e a l l y good dissertations-turned-books, an even larger proportion are by women (White [1924], Lowery [1935], Ostriker [1963], and Tayler [1967]). In Blake studies, the emancipation of women's i n t e l l e c t u a l energies has not been a recent phenomenon.

In terms of popularity of subject, the most common seem to be influences on Blake from the past, with f o r t y - t w o theses on his sources and predecessors such as Boehme ( 3 ) , Milton ( 8 ) , Newton, and Pope ( s i c ). There are t h i r t y - e i g h t dissertations on Blake and his successors, his r e p u t a t i o n , or his i n f l u e n c e , including three on James Joyce, two on D. G. R o s s e t t i , four on D. H. Lawrence, and ten ( s i c ) on Yeats. T h i r t y - t h r e e are on Blake and his contemporaries such as Burns ( 2 ) , Byron ( 8 ) , Coleridge (10), Goethe, Keats ( 7 ) , Shelley (11), Thomas Taylor, and Wordsworth ( 1 5 ) , though of course most are t r a c i n g l i t t l e more than coincidental r e l a t i o n s h i p s w i t h Blake.

For theses concentrating on Blake's w r i t i n g s themselves, the range of ambition is vast; some dissertations cover a l l his poetry, while a few spend years on j u s t one l y r i c such as "The Tyger" (Shea) or "Laughing Song" (Warner). I t i s s t r i k i n g that most theses concentrating w i t h i n a narrow range of the poetry focus on the Prophecies, especially the epics:

Shorter Prophecies

Epics

America Furope Urizen Visions Thel

Lyrics Etc.

Songs "Mental T r a v e l l e r " " E v e r l a s t i n g Gospel" Marriage Poetical Sketches

The three epics Vala Mi I ton Jerusalem

The popular conception of Blake as a l y r i c poet i s scarcely r e f l e c t e d by the dissertations on him.

There are, n a t u r a l l y , a number of oddities to be found among such a mass of earnest works. Probably many of these authors of theses on William Blake have never seen an o r i g i n a l copy of his w r i t i n g s , and some of them seem to w r i t e in something l i k e COBOL ( S c o t t ) , f i t only f o r computers. My f a v o r i t e , I t h i n k , i s the abstract which concludes that "His poem [i.e., poetry] commands to be read bodily" (Singh). But of course the vast majority of works here use, i f they do not much extend, conventional language and wisdom.

I t seems l i k e l y that t h i s very extensive a c t i v i t y among w r i t e r s of d i s s e r t a t i o n s i s t y p i c a l of Blake studies in general, p a r t i c u l a r l y in terms of subjects, a t t i t u d e s , and methods. Even more s i g n i f i c a n t l y , considering the vast number of Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s produced in the l a s t ten years, i t seems a r e l i a b l e prognostication f o r the f u t u r e , f o r of course these w r i t e r s of d i s s e r t a t i o n s on Blake are l i k e l y to produce hundreds of a r t i c l e s and books on him. I t would probably be possible to make a f a i r l y accurate map of the immediate future of Blake studies by studying c a r e f u l l y the trends v i s i b l e in the l a s t hundred Blake d i s s e r t a t i o n s completed. I t i s p l a i n that Blake scholars are at l e a s t i m i t a t i n g the prodigious energy of t h e i r subject, to whom "Energy is Eternal D e l i g h t. "

T h i r t y - e i g h t of the two hundred s i x t y d i s s e r t a t i o n s on Blake have been published. Some n i n e t y - f o u r scholars (36%) published books or a r t i c l e s beyond t h e i r Ph.D. work on Blake; i f we ignore degree-recipients o f 1972-77, who have not yet had much time to p u b l i s h , the proportion rises to 46%. The average length of time between the completion of the degree and p u b l i c a t i o n of the f i r s t a r t i c l e is one year, ranging from eight years before the thesis was accepted to twelve years afterwards. Of the n i n e t y - f o u r Blake-doctors who have published on Blake, t h i r t y - f i v e (37%) published something on him before the d i s s e r t a t i o n was f i n i s h e d ; another twenty-six (28%) published in the year or the year after the d i s s e r t a t i o n was f i n i s h e d ; another twenty-six (28%) f i r s t published on Blake within two to five years o f completion of the d i s s e r t a t i o n ; and a f i n a l seven (7%) f i r s t published on Blake six to twelve years a f t e r completing the t h e s i s. Assuming a year between

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acceptance of an article or book and its publication,

this means that sixty-one authors (65% of those

who published on Blake at all) had something

accepted for publication before the dissertation

was accepted. Those who do not publish early are

likely to publish little if anything.

In all, authors of dissertations on Blake have

published thirty books beyond the dissertation

(sixty-seven books including the dissertations) and

three hundred fifty-seven articles (4,271 pages).

Of these ninety-four authors, sixteen (17%) have

thus far published less than six pages, while ten

of them (11%) published over one hundred pages of

articles each--2,209 pages in all, or 51% of the

total number of article-pages by authors who wrote

doctoral dissertations on Blake. Five authors have

produced one hundred seventeen articles (32% of the

total) and seventeen post-Ph.D. books (57% of the

total)--and three of these five also published

their dissertations. Of those who published

theses on Blake, thirteen wrote nothing more on

him (save perhaps reviews), one wrote another book,

seven wrote books and articles on him, and fifteen

wrote articles on him. And one hundred sixty-eight

authors of Blake theses have as yet published

neither book nor article on him. The labours of

Blake scholarship have not been very equally

divided.

The vagaries of energy and accomplishment are

wonderful and difficult of prediction. We can

neither predict nor produce another Sir Geoffrey

Keynes, who has thus far produced over seventy

articles and fifty books on Blake,1?^ but we can

train and foster the intellectual energies of young

women and young men so that they can recognize

genius and evaluate it, in a Keynes or a Blake.

There is a wonderful paradox in these hundreds of

literary doctors.diagnosing the work of an uneducated

poet, a paradox which would, I think, have tickled

their subject. The energy now devoted to Blake

around the Enqlish-speaking world, particularly

through studies by scholars with a doctorate about

Blake, is likely to multiply works and, I hope,

knowledge about the man who wrote that "Energy is

the only life."^13

DISSERTATIONS O N WILLIAM BLAKE 1 91 1 - 7 6

The supplementary information is derived from

Blake Books (1977).

Abel, Elizabeth Frances. "The Married Arts: Poetry

and Painting in Blake and Beaudelaire." DAI, XXXVII

(1976), 290A. Princeton Ph.D., 1975.

Adams, Hazard. "The Structure of Myth in the Poetry

of William Blake and W. B. Yeats." DA, XIV (1954),

105-6A. Washington Ph.D., 1953.

Printed as Blake and Yeats: The Contrary Vision

(Ithaca, 1955) Cornell Studies in English Volume

XL (Reprinted N.Y., 1968). He has also published

1 book (1963) and / articles (119 pp., 1954-76)

on Blake.

Anderson, William Davis. "'Awake Ye Dead': A Study

of Blake's The Book of Urizen, The Four Zoas, and

Jerus lem.

n

DA, XXVIII (1967), 1386A. Texas Ph.D.,

Armah, Ayi Kwei. "The Romantic Response to the

Industrial Revolution: A Sociological Study of the

Works of William Blake, 1757-1827 and William

Wordsworth, 1770-1850." Harvard Ph.D., 1963.

Ault, Donald A. "Visionary Physics: Blake's

Response to Newton." Chicago Ph.D., 1968.

Printed with the same title (Chicago ?< London,

1974). He has also published 1 article (I p.,

1975) on Blake.

Ba-Han, Maung. The Evolution of Blakean Philosophy.

Rangoon [1926].

A pastiche of commonplaces (94 p p. ) , originally a

1925 Freiberg Ph.D.

Ba-Han, Maung. William Blake His Mysticism.

Bordeaux, 1924.

Blake's mysticism consists in "his insights on the supreme value of the ' s e l f ' " (p. 237); t h i s was a Bordeaux Ph.D.

Baine, Mary Rion. "Satan and the Satan Figure in the Poetry of William Blake." DAI, XXXV (1975), 5335-6A. Georgia Ph.D., 1974. A 137-page argument that Blake "was far from the conventional S a t a n i s t. " She has collaborated on 5 essays on Blake (16 p p. ).

B a l l i n , Michael G. "D. H. Lawrence and William Blake: A C r i t i c a l Study i n Influence and Analogy." Toronto Ph.D., 1972. See DAI, XXXIV (1974), 5754A. Concerned mostly with analogies in Lawrence.

Bandy, Melanie Flossie. "The Idea of Evil i n the Poetry of Blake and Shelley: A Comparative Study." DAI, XXXII (1972), 5218A. New Mexico Ph.D., 1971. "This analogical study" discovers " s t r i k i n g s i m i l a r i t i e s. "

Bassalik-de Vries, J. C. E. William Blake in his

Relation to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Basel, 1911.

A 56-page Zurich Ph.D., not notably accurate.

Behrendt, Stephen C. "Liberating the Awakener: William Blake's I l l u s t r a t i o n s to John M i l t o n ' s Poetry." DAI, XXXV (1975), 4415A. Wisconsin Ph.D.,

Bentley, G. E., J r. Ed., "William Blake's Four Zoas." 2 vols. Oxford D. P h i l. , 1956. Printed as Vala or The Four Zoas: A Facsimile of the Manuscript, a Transcript of the Poem and a Study of i t s Growth and Significance (Oxford, 1963). He has also published 8 books (1964-77) and 54 a r t i c l e s (500 p p. , 1954-78) on Blake.

Bentley, G. E., J r. "William Blake and the Alchemical Philosophers." Oxford B. L i t t. , 1954. Diffuse and inconclusive.

Benzel , Michael Arnold. "Vision and Revision in The Four Zoas: The Evidence of the Manuscript." DAI, XXXVII (1977), 6492A. Toledo Ph.D., 1976. Vala is revised from Orcian wrath to Christian mercy.

Bindman, David. "The Artistic Ideas of William

Blake." London Ph.D., 1971.

He has published 4 books (1970-78) and 8 articles

(23 pp., 1966-74) on Blake.

Daeley, Carol Ann. "Image of I n f i n i t e : William Blake's Language of Poetry." DAI, XXXVI (1975), 2215A. C a l i f o r n i a (Riverside) Ph.D., 1975.

Daly, Michael Joseph. "The Marriage Metaphor and the Romantic Prophecy: A Study of the Uses of the Epithai amium i n the Poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge." DA, XXIX (1969), 2254A. Southern C a l i f o r n i a Ph.D., 1968.

Dargan, Tom. "Blake, Stonehenge, and the New Jerusalem." DAI, XXXIX (1978), 893A. State University of New York (Stony Brook) Ph.D., 1978. "Jerusalem is an earnest parody" of 18th Century antiquarians, f o r "Blake is r e w r i t i n g the antiquarians' ancient h i s t o r y to l e t i t prophecy a republican r e v o l u t i o n in England." He has published 1 c o l l a b o r a t i v e essay on Blake (46 p p. , 1973).

Davies, J. G. "The Theology of William Blake." Oxford B.D. , 1946. Printed (Oxford, 1948; Hampden, Connecticut, 1965).

Davies, James Mark Quentin. "Blake's Designs f o r Paradise Lost: A C r i t i c a l Analysis." DAI, XXXIII (1973), 6866-7A. Iowa Ph.D., 1972. "The series are not l i t e r a l i l l u s t r a t i o n s but astute c r i t i c a l commentaries on the shortcomings of M i l t o n ' s epic.... "

Davis, John Lindsay. "Blake and the Rhetoric of Humor." DAI, XXXV (1974), 2936A. Texas Ph.D., 1974. Blake's "use of •.. [the] r h e t o r i c [of humor] is s u r p r i s i n g l y frequent"; i t is d i d a c t i c , s a t i r i c , and i r o n i c.

Davis, John Lowell. "Blake and Boehme." Cincinnati Ph.D., 1931.

Deboo, Kitayun Erachshaw. "The P r i n c i p l e of the Cycle in James Joyce's Ulysses and William Blake's The Mental Traveller." DA, XXVIII (1967), 632A. State University of New York (Buffalo) Ph.D., 1967. "The p a r a l l e l... is in the psychic s t a t e s. "

Deck, Raymond H., J r. "Blake and Swedenborg." Brandeis Ph.D., 1977. A careful and o r i g i n a l study placing Blake f i r m l y in the Swedenborgian context of his times. He published 5 a r t i c l e s (42 pp.) on Blake in 1977.

Derderian, Nancy Cebula. "Against the Patriarchal Pomp'. A Study of the Feminine P r i n c i p l e in the Poetry of William Blake." DAI, XXXV (1975), 4425A. State University of New York (Buffalo) Ph.D., 1974. " I explore through close textual a n a l y s i s , the sexual argument for Blake's r e b e l l i o n against a ' c l a s s i c a l ' a t t i t u d e. "

Dickinson, Kate L a e t i t i a. William Blake's Anticipation of the Individualistic Revolution. (N. Y., 1915) Reprinted ( F o l c r o f t , Pennsylvania, 1969). New York Ph.D., 1915. A 56-page t h e s i s , p r i v a t e l y p r i n t e d.

D i l g a r d , Cynthia Corlew. "The Structure of Jerusalem." DAI, XXXIV (1973), 2553-4A. Vanderbilt Ph.D., 1973.

"Blake structures... [it] according to the Divine Analogy."

Disalvo, Jacqueline Anne. "War of T i t a n s : Blake's Confrontation with M i l t o n. The Four Zoas as P o l i t i c a l C r i t i q u e of Paradise Lost and the Genesis T r a d i t i o n. " DAI, XXXVIII (1977), 3456A. Wisconsin Ph.D., 1977. "Blake transforms" the " t r a d i t i o n of merging r e l i g i o n , p o l i t i c s , and a r t " which he shares with Milton " i n t o an almost h i s t o r i c a l m a t e r i a l i s t one, a breakthrough celebrated" in Vala Night V i l a. She has published two essays on Blake (51 p p. , 1972-75). Doggett, John Rentz, I I I. "A Reading of William Blake's The Book of Urizen." DAI, XXXV (1974), 2936A. Texas Ph.D., 1974. A reading "without recourse to external sources and to other works of Blake" in 144 pages.

Domke, Charlotte Frances Townsend. "Progeny of F i r e : A Study of Blake's Satanic Images." DAI, XXXII (1972), 5733-4A. Texas Ph.D., 1971.

Dorfman, Deborah. "The Development of William Blake's Reputation as a Poet i n the Nineteenth Century." Yale Ph.D., 1964. Printed as Blake in the Nineteenth Century: His Reputation as a Poet From G i l c h r i s t to Yeats. (New Haven & London, 1969) Yale Studies in English Volume CLXX. A useful study, concentrating on G i l c h r i s t and E l l i s & Yeats. She has also published 1 a r t i c l e on Blake (23 p p. , 1967).

Doskow, Minna Levine. "Structure and Meaning i n William Blake's Jerusalem." DAI, XXXIII (1972), 2322-3A. Maryland Ph.D., 1972. "Jerusalem displays a thematic rather than a narrative u n i t y. "

Drescher, Timothy Wallace. " A r t and A l i e n a t i o n in Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." DAI, XXXII (1971), 386A. Wisconsin Ph.D., 1971. About Blake's "manipulation of d i a l e c t i c a l progression in t e x t and design to e f f e c t i v e l y eliminate a l i e n a t i o n between the reader and the objective work"; "the reader must participate i n the Marriage. "

Druian, Michael Gregory. "Visual Imagination in Blake's Jerusalem and Goethe's Faust II." DAI, XXXIV (1973), 1238A. Oregon Ph.D., 1973. "The mode of operation of imagination is p r i m a r i l y v i s u a l. "

Dunbar, Pamela M. "A Study of Blake's I l l u s t r a t i o n s to the Poetry of M i l t o n. " Cambridge Ph.D., 1973.

Dunlap, Ann Bush. "Blake's 'The Mental T r a v e l l e r ' and the C r i t i c s. " DAI, XXXIV (1974), 6586-7A. New Mexico Ph.D., 1973. Tries to understand the poem "through a systematic study of the poem's [' ] c r i t i c s. "

Durstine, Jean Marie. "William Blake's Theory of A r t and I t s Application to His Poetry." : , ; , XXVI (1965), 2748-9A. Indiana Ph.D., 1965. "The chaotic form of the prophecies" r e s u l t s from Blake's theory of a r t.

Easson, Roger Ralph. "The Rhetoric and Style of beheld Blake's subject matter, symbology, and Apocalypse i n William Blake's Jerusalem." DAI, p o e t i c s. " XXXI (1971), 2873A. Tulsa Ph.D., 1970. "Blake's r a t i o n a l e i n Jerusalem involves a concerted and sophisticated attempt to confuse and yet t a n t a l i z e the reader.... " He has also published 1 c o l l a b o r a t i v e book (1972); co-founded and edited Blake Studies (1968 f f. ) ; published 6 a r t i c l e s (35 p p. , 1971-77) on Blake.

Eaves, Morris Emery. "Blake's A r t i s t i c Strategy." DAI, XXXIII (1972), 1165-6A. Tulane Ph.D., 1972. Eaves has published 5 a r t i c l e s (86 p p. , 1970-77) on Blake, and co-edited Blake Newsletter ( f f. ). Blake's t e x t cannot be separated from his designs.

E l l i o t t , P a t r i c i a D e l l. "A C r i t i c a l Variorum Edition of William Blake's The Book of Urizen." DAI, XXXVIII (1977), 2804A. Arkansas Ph.D., 1977. "A study of... i t s meaning f o r the i n d i v i d u a l , " followed by chronologically arranged excerpts from c r i t i c s of Urizen.

Essick, Robert Newman. "The Art of William Blake's Early Illuminated Books." C a l i f o r n i a (San Diego) Ph.D., 1969. See DAI, XXX (1969), 2020-1A. A useful study of the i l l u m i n a t i o n s through the Visions (1793). He has published 2 c o l l a b o r a t i v e books (1972-73) and 15 a r t i c l e s (352 p p. , 1969-78) on Blake.

Evans, James C a r l. "Epistemology, Aesthetics, and 'Divine Analogy': A Study of the Poetics of William Blake." Queen's (Kingston, Ontario) Ph.D., 1974. He has published an essay on Blake (8 p p. , 1972).

F a i r c h i l d , Bertram Harry, J r. '"Such Holy Song': Music as Idea, Form, and Image in the Poetry o f William Blake." DAI, XXXVI (1975), 900A. Tulsa Ph.D., 1975. He has published 1 a r t i c l e (17 p p. , 1976) on Blake.

Ferber, Michael. "Religion and P o l i t i c s i n William Blake." Harvard Ph.D., 1976. He has published an a r t i c l e on Blake (10 p p. , 1978).

Fisher, Peter F. "The Doctrine of William Blake i n the Background of the Eighteenth Century. Part I : The Doctrine in i t s Larger H i s t o r i c a l S e t t i n g. " Toronto Ph.D., 1949. Printed as The Valley of Vision: Blake as Prophet and Revolutionary. Ed. Northrop Frye. (Toronto

1961. University of Toronto Department of English Studies and Texts, No. 9. Reprinted (Toronto, 1971). Part I I does not form part of the thesis and was reserved " f o r inclusion in the book which I hope to produce" but which was apparently never w r i t t e n. Fisher also published 2 a r t i c l e s (42 p p. , 1959-61) on Blake.

F i t e , Monte D. "Yeats as an Editor of Blake: I n t e r p r e t a t i o n and Emendation in The Works of William Blake 3 Poetic, Symbolic and Critical." DAI, XXXI (1971), 355A. North Carolina Ph.D., 1968. "The purpose of t h i s study is to r e l a t e Yeats's e d i t o r i a l emendations to his c r i t i c a l and i n t e r p r e t i v e commentary and to conclude how he

F l a t t o , E l i e. "The Social and P o l i t i c a l Ideas of William Blake." DA, XXVII (1967), 3870A. New York University Ph.D., 1966.

Foley, Matthew Joseph. "English P r i n t i n g & Book I l l u s t r a t i o n 1780-1820." DAI, XXXVIII (1978), 6368A. C a l i f o r n i a (Santa Cruz) Ph.D., 1977. "This d i s s e r t a t i o n addresses i t s e l f to transformations which took place in English p r i n t i n g and book i l l u s t r a t i o n from 1780-1820," dealing with Blake in Chapters IV-V.

Fox, Susan C h r i s t i n e. "Hammer and Loom: The Design of Blake's Milton." DAI, XXXI (1971), 6547A. Yale Ph.D., 1970. Printed as Poetic Form in Blake's Milton (Princeton, 1976). "The two books of the Milton are exhaustively p a r a l l e l. " She has also published one a r t i c l e (15 p p. , 1970) on Blake.

Freedman, Marsha Brody. "Blake's Kinetic Imagery: A Symbology of Perceptual Process." C a l i f o r n i a (Berkeley) Ph.D., 1975.

Freiburg, Stanley Kenneth. "The A r t i s t ' s Year: A Study of the Meaning of Time in the L i f e and Works of William Blake." DA, XVII (1957), 848A. Wisconsin Ph.D., 1957. He published 1 a r t i c l e (12 p p. , 1969) on Blake.

Frosch, Thomas Richard. "The Awakening of A l b i o n : The Renovation of the Body in William Blake's Jerusalem. " DAI, XXX (1969), 1561A. Yale Ph.D.,

Printed as The Awakening of Albion: The Renovation of the Body in the Poetry of William Blake. (Ithaca & London, 1974). "A l i t e r a l i s t i c reading of Blake's imagery of the f a l l and resurrection of the human body.... "

Frost, Everett Calvin. "The Prophet Armed: William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell." DAI, XXXII (1971), 2685A. Iowa Ph.D., 1971. The Marriage " i s a c a r e f u l l y organized n a r r a t i v e of the t r a i n i n g of a prophet." He published 1 c o l l a b o r a t i v e a r t i c l e (1 p. , 1972) on Blake.

F u l b r i g h t , James Stephen. "William Blake and the Emancipation of Woman." DAI, XXXIV (1974), 7132A. Missouri Ph.D., 1973. A 118-page essay on Blake's ideas of 1778-93 and his r e l a t i o n s with such "close f r i e n d s " as James Barry and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Gabbett-Mulallen, K. A. "Blake's Night Thoughts Designs: Context, Christology and Composite'Work." 3 vols. Toronto Ph.D., 1975. She has published two essays on Blake (27 p p. ,

Galbraith, Thomas William. "A 'Fresher Morning':

Blake Labors to Awaken Man." DAI, XXXVII (1976),

984A. Washington Ph.D., 1975.

Approaches Blake's poetry "as a record of growth

and discovery."

Descriptive Catalogue o f , and Subject Index to the Drawings for Young's Night Thoughts." Exeter Ph.D. , 1972.

H i l l , Melvyn Alan. " P o l i t i c s and Art in the Poetry of William Blake." Chicago Ph.D., 1969.

H i r s t , Desire"e. "A Study of Blake's Milton." Oxford B. L i t t. , 1953. A provocative study of Blake's mythological sources. She has published 1 book (1964) and 6 a r t i c l e s (23 p p. , 1950-78) on Blake.

Hoeveler, Diane Long. "The Erotic Apocalypse: The Androgynous Ideal in Blake and Shelley." DAI, XXXVII (1977), 6498A. I l l i n o i s Ph.D., 1976. Both "employed the symbol of the androgyne to depict an asexual state of consciousness."

Holmberg, Carol E. "A Study of William Blake's Fourfold Perceptive Process as Interpreted by William Butler Yeats." DAI, XXXIII (1971), 2666A. Minnesota Ph.D. , 1971. The Yeats source seems to be exclusively "The Necessity of Symbolism" (1893).

Hoover, Suzanne Robinson. "William Blake i n the Wilderness: The Early History of His Reputation." DAI, XXXI (1971), 1231A. Columbia Ph.D., 1967. She has published 4 a r t i c l e s (68 p p. , 1972-74) on Blake.

Howard, John Douglas, J r. "The Child-Hero in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, and Wordsworth." DA, XXVIII (1968), 2647A. Maryland Ph.D., 1967. "Blake sees the c h i l d ' s power as two kinds of innocence." He has published a book (1976) and an a r t i c l e (10 p p. , 1968) on Blake.

Hower, Harold E. "The Aesthetics of Composite A r t in William Blake's Jerusalem." DAI, XXXV (1974), 3683-4A. Kent State Ph.D., 1974.

Humma, John B. "From Transcendental to Descendental: The Romantic Thought of Blake, Nietzsche, Lawrence." DAI, XXX (1970), 4454A. Southern I l l i n o i s Ph.D.,

He has published 1 a r t i c l e (8 p p. , 1973) on Blake.

Jackson, Mary Vera. "A Study of the Use of Poetic Myth in the Work of William Blake from 1783 to 1794." DAI, XXX (1970), 5410-11 A. Washington Ph.D., 1969. She has published 3 a r t i c l e s (30 p p. , 1971-77) on Blake.

James, David Edmund. "Written Within and Without: Form and Structure in Blake's Milton." DAI, XXXII (1972), 4614A. Pennsylvania Ph.D., 1971.

James, William Lloyd. "The Black Man in English Romantic L i t e r a t u r e , 1772-1833." DAI, XXXVIII (1977), 2808A. C a l i f o r n i a (Los Angeles) Ph.D., 1977. "The study's concluding chapter examines the r e l a t i o n s h i p of William Blake to s l a v e r y. "

Jones, Warren. "Blake's Large Color-Printed Drawings of 1795." DAI, XXXIII (1973), 6873A. Northwestern Ph.D., 1972.

Kaplan, Nancy A. "William Blake's The Four Zoas: The Rhetoric of V i s i o n. " DAI, XXXVI (1975), 2846-7A. Cornell Ph.D., 1975. Especially on the r e l a t i o n s h i p of t e x t and design.

Karvonen, Paul Edwin. "Part I : Concert Overture for Orchestra. Part I I : The Little Black Boy f o r Soprano Solo, S t r i n g Quartet, and C l a r i n e t , to the Poems of William Blake." DA, XXII (1961), 595A. Iowa Ph.D., 1960.

Kauvar, Elaine Mozer. "Blake's Botanical Imagery." DAI, XXXII (1971), 3255-6A. Northwestern Ph.D.,

"The present study traces the e f f e c t of Blake's context on his organic imagery."

Keating, Ruth Aikman. "A Fourth Dimension in Word and P i c t u r e : William Blake's Theory of Imagination." DAI, XXXVI (1976), 6115A. Texas Women's University Ph.D., 1974. "The works considered are a l l the l y r i c s of Songs of Innocence and several l y r i c s of Songs of Experience. "

Keene, Michael Lawrence. "The Expansive V i s i o n : Visual Perception and Romantic Poetry." DAI, XXXVII (1977), 5143A. Texas Ph.D., 1976. A thesis "demonstrating expansive vision in the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats."

Kellog, Seth. "Tragic Generation: A Commentary on Some Works of William Blake and on the Book of Genesis." DAI, XXXIV (1973), 3346-7A. Massachusetts Ph.D., 1973. "A c r i t i c a l reading [ s i c ] of some works by William Blake and of the Book of Genesis as Blake read i t. "

Kessel, Marcel. "A Comparative Study of Blake and Wordsworth as Mystical W r i t e r s. " Cornell Ph.D.,

K i r a l i s , K a r l. " C r i t i c a l Edition ( i n Two Volumes) of William Blake's Jerusalem, The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804-1820)." DA, XIV (1954), 2347-8A. Brown Ph.D., 1954. He has published 8 a r t i c l e s (113 p p. , 1955-69) on Blake.

K l i n e , A l f r e d A l l a n. "The English Romantics and the American Republic; An Analysis of the Concept of America in the Work of Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley." DA, XIV (1954), 112A. Columbia Ph.D., 1953. He has published 1 a r t i c l e (1 p. , 1956) on Blake.

Ko, So Woong. "A Study of Japanese C r i t i c i s m of William Blake's Poetry." DAI, XXXVIII (1977), 2141 A. Nebraska Ph.D., 1976. "^he Japanese have shown us a remarkable c u l t u r a l r e c e p t i v i t y in the study of William Blake."

Kolker, Robert P h i l l i p. "The A l t e r i n g Eye: William Blake's Use of Eighteenth-Century Poetics." DAI XXX (1969), 1987A. Columbia Ph.D., 1969. Blake " c a r r i e s Augustan humanism as f a r as i t w i l l go."

Koper, Peter Thomas. "Authentic Speech: An Essay with Investigations of the Rhetoric of Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, and William Blake." DAI, XXXIV (1974), 6594-5A. Texas Christian Ph.D., 1973. Johnson's Rambler essays, Burke's Reflections, and Blake's Marriage have "a common r h e t o r i c a l p a t t e r n , " i. e. , " s p a t i a l rather than l i n e a r , " "the structure of a montage."

Kostelanetz, Anne Tidaback. "The Human Form in the Poetry and Art of William Blake." DAI, XXX (1969), 1987-8A. Columbia Ph.D., 1967. Printed as Anne Kostelanetz Mellor, Blake's Human Form Divine (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1974). She has also published 1 a r t i c l e (15 p p. , 1971) on Blake.

Kreman, Kathryn Rebecca. "The Imagination of the Resurrection: The Poetic Continuity and Conversion of a Religious Motif in Donne, Blake, and Yeats." DAI, XXXI (1971), 5366A. Brandeis Ph.D., 1970. Printed as The Imagination of the Resurrection: The Poetical Continuity of a Religious Motif in Donne, Blake, and Yeats. (Lewisburg [Pennsylvania], 1972). "Chapter I I I [ ' B l a k e ' s Fourfold Resurrection and C h r i s t i a n i t y of the Imagination'] (the d i s s e r t a t i o n ' s center) considers Blake's unifying mythology of the Four Zoa's resurrection as an appropriation of the imagination."

Larson, Gary Dean. "The Role of God in Blake's Later V i s i o n : The Fall and the Apocalypse." DA, XXVIII (1968), 5059-60A. Emory Ph.D., 1967.

Lechay, Daniel T. "The Escape from the Lonely D e l l : Studies in Spenser, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Blake." DAI XXXVI (1975), 2220A. Iowa Ph.D., 1975. Applies "three i n t e r r e l a t e d dicta of William Blake" to Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Spenser's "Muiopotmos," Wordsworth's "Matthew" poems, and Blake's " L i t t l e Girl Lost" and "Found."

Lefcowitz, Barbara Freedgood. "The Shaping Flame: S e l f , Nature and Madness in the Poetry of Christopher Smart and William Blake." DAI, XXXI (1970), 4125-6A. Maryland Ph.D., 1970. "Their poetry seems strongly to counter the p o s s i b i l i t y of madness." She has published 2 a r t i c l e s (27 p p. , 1972-74) on Blake.

Lemaitre, Henri. "Les I l l u s t r a t i o n s pour l e Livre de Job par William Blake." Paris Ph.D., 1953. He published 2 a r t i c l e s (15 p p. , 1959-71) on Blake.

Lento, Thomas Vincent. "The Epic Consciousness in Four Romantic and Modern Epics by Blake, Byron, E l i o t and Hart Crane." DAI, XXXV (1975), 7911 A. Iowa Ph.D., 1974. Blake's Vala and Byron's Don Juan indicate " t h a t both the conception of the epic hero and the v i s i o n of a desirable society changed in the Romantic age."

Leonard, Harris Kieth. "William Blake and 'The Mental T r a v e l l e r '. " DAI, XXXVIII (1978), 6743-4A. Howard Ph.D., 1976. "The purpose of t h i s d i s s e r t a t i o n is to provide

both a review of c r i t i c i s m on 'The Mental T r a v e l l e r ' and an i n t e r p r e t a t i o n o f the poem."

Lesnick, Henry G. "Blake's A n t i t h e t i c a l V i s i o n : A Study of the Structure of Jerusalem. " DAI, XXX (1969), 1987A. Columbia Ph.D., 1969. He has published 2 a r t i c l e s (30 p p. , 1969-71) on Blake.

L e v i t t , Annette Esther Shandler. "The Poetry and Thought of William Blake in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth." DAI, XXXI (1971), 4778-9A. Pennsylvania State Ph.D., 1970. " u l t i m a t e l y he [Caryl re-creates for us the e n t i r e Blake myth-complex."

Lindberg, Bo. William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job. (Abo [ F i n l a n d ] , 1973) Acta Academiae Aboensis, Ser.A: Humaniora: Humanistiska Vetenskaper, Socialvetenskaper och J u r i d i k , Teologi, Vol. XLVI. Abo Ph.D., 1973. A major work. He has also published 3 a r t i c l e s (42 p p. , 1968-74) on Blake.

Li pa, Charles B u e l l. "The C r i t i c a l Theory of William Blake." Cornell Ph.D., 1940.

Digested in pp. 33-36 of Cornell University

Abstracts of Theses (Ithaca, 1941).

Long, Kay Parkhurst. "Unity in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Review and Discussion." DAI, XXXI (1971), 2884A. Tulsa Ph.D., 1970. I t includes "a survey of c r i t i c i s m " and "a reading." She has published 4 a r t i c l e s on Blake (11 p p. , 1969-75) and is co-founder and e d i t o r of Blake Studies (1968 f f. ).

Lowenstein, Amy. "Annals of the Poor: Social Fact and A r t i s t i c Response in Gray, Goldsmith. Cowper, Crabbe, Blake, Burns." DAI, XXIX (1969), 4006-7A. New York University Ph.D., 1968. Their responses "to the s i t u a t i o n of the laboring poor."

Lowery, Margaret Ruth. "William Blake's Poetical Sketches 1783." Yale Ph.D., 1935. Printed in windows of the Morning: A C r i t i c a l Study of William Blake's Poetical Sketches, 1783 (New Haven & London, 1940) Yale Studies in English Volume X C I I I. Reprinted (N.Y., 1970). A pioneering study of Blake's sources, p a r t i c u l a r l y in the 18th Century. She also published 3 a r t i c l e s on Blake (43 p p. , 1936-49).

Lowry, Mark Daniel. "Relationship of Design, Color, and Text in the S t i r l i n g - K e i r Copy of William Blake's Jerusalem." DAI, XXXVI (1975), 2850A. Texas Ph.D., 1975.

Machin, N. P. F. "The Influence of the Visual Arts and of Art-Theories in Romantic Poetry w i t h Special Reference to James Usher, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats." London M. P h i l. , 1967.

Mandell, Robert. "The Emergence of Los w i t h i n Blake's Archetypal D i a l e c t i c. " DAI, XXXIII (1973), 4354A. Wisconsin Ph.D., 1972. 'Vhere does Los begin and how does he evolve?"

5418A. Minnesota Ph.D., 1970.

Milton "is a superbly constructed work of art."

"The key to the structure of the poem is the

principle of the arch form."

Noll, Jacqueline Ann. "Old Testament Prophecy in

Blake's Lambeth Poems." DAI, XXXVIII (1978), 5500A.

Maryland Ph.D., 1977.

It includes identifications of "Blake's

borrowings and use of biblical material."

Nurmi, Martin Karl. "Blake's Doctrine of Contraries:

A Study in Visionary Metaphysics." Minnesota Ph.D.,

1954. See DA, XIV (1954), 977-8A.

He has published 3 books (1957-75) and 5 articles

(73 pp., 1956-69) on Blake.

O'Brien, Michael William. "Between Language and Voice: A Study of Aesthetic Experimentation in Blake, Whitman, Cummings, and Concrete Poetry." DAI, XXXIV (1974), 6985A. I l l i n o i s Ph.D., 1973. A 177-page essay concentrating, in the Blake s e c t i o n , on the Songs.

Ogawa, J i r o. Mushin to Keiken no Uta Kenkyu: A

Study on William Blake's Songs of Innooenae and of

Experience (Kyoto, 1950).

A thesis in Japanese. He has also published two more books (1972-73) and 10 a r t i c l e s (115 p p. , 1948-75) on Blake.

O'Hare, Susan Carol. "Going Wonder-Ways: S a c r a l i t y and Skepticism i n B r i t i s h Romantic Poetry." DAI, XXXVII (1977), 2203A. Rice Ph.D., 1976. On heirophany in Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats.

O s t r i k e r , A l i c i a S. "William Blake: A Study in Poetic Technique." DA, XXIV (1964), 3754-5A. Wisconsin Ph.D., 1963. Printed as Vision and Verse in William Blake (Madison & Milwaukee, 1965). A sensitive and responsible commentary on Blake's prosody. She has published an e d i t i o n of Blake (1977).

Paley, Morton David. "Energy and the Imagination: A Study of the Development of Blake's Thought." DA, XXVIII (1967), 689-90A. Columbia Ph.D., 1964. Printed (Oxford, 1970). As Blake's myth develops, Ore (energy) diminishes in importance and Los (imagination) becomes c e n t r a l. He has also edited three books on Blake (1969-78), published 16 a r t i c l e s on him (213 p p. , 1962-78), and founded and edited Blake Newsletter (1967 f f. ).

Pananides, Dean Nicholas. "Vision and Form in William Blake's Illuminated Poetry." DAI, XXXVII (1977), 7765-6A. C a l i f o r n i a (Santa Barbara) Ph.D.,

On "the r e l a t i o n s h i p between vision and form."

Pederson, Glenn Malvern. "The Religion of William Blake: Interpreted from the Fall and Regeneration of A l b i o n , Divine Man in the Myth of Blake." DA, XIV (1954), 830A. Washington Ph.D., 1954. He published 1 a r t i c l e (11 p p. , 1958) on Blake.

P e d r i n i , Lura Nancy Gregory. "Serpent Imagery and Symbolism in the Major English Romantic Poets:

Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats." DA, XX (1959), 2277A. Texas Ph.D., 1958. She published 2 a r t i c l e s (120 p p. , 1960-61) which are probably the same as her t h e s i s.

Peterfreund, Stuart Samuel. "A Program Toward Prophecy: Eighteenth-Century Influences on the Poetry of William Blake." DAI, XXXVI (1975), 3700A. Washington Ph.D., 1974. He has published an essay on Blake (14 p p. , 1974).

Peterson, Jane E. "Metric and Syntactic Experimentation in Blake's Prophecies of 1788- 1795." DAI, XXXVI (1975), 3661A. Arkansas Ph.D.,

Examines "the opening lines of each of these prophecies." She also published an a r t i c l e on Blake (13 p p. , 1973).

Petter, Henri. Enitharmon: Stellung und Aufgabe eines Symbols in dichterischen Gesamtwerk William Blakes (Bern, 1957) Swiss Studies in English, 42. Band. A 160-page doctoral d i s s e r t a t i o n of 1956.

P h i l l i p s , Michael C u r t i s. "The Poetical Sketches of William Blake: A d e f i n i t i v e t e x t , the reputation of the poems from 1783 to the present, and an i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of t h e i r meaning." University of Exeter Ph.D., 1969. He has co-edited a book (1973) and published 3 a r t i c l e s (38 p p. , 1970-73) on Blake.

Pierce, Hazel Beasley. "A C r i t i c a l Study of William Blake's Europe. " DAI, XXXI (1971), 5372-3A. Nebraska Ph.D., 1970.

Ray, William Ernest. "William Blake and the C r i t i c a l Development of William Butler Yeats." DAI, XXXII (1971), 2652A. North Carolina Ph.D., 1971. "Blake remained c e n t r a l l y important to Yeats throughout his c r i t i c a l career." He has published an essay on Blake (11 p p. , 1973).

Read, Dennis Myron. "William Blake and The Grave." Wisconsin (Milwaukee) Ph.D., 1976. See DAI, XXXVII (1977), 6478A. A sound, responsible study. He has published a note (2 pp.) on Blake in 1977.

Rhodes, Jack Lee. "A Study in the Vocabulary of English Romanticism: Joy i n the Poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron." DA, XXVII (1967), 3434A. Texas Ph.D., 1966. "Blake's use of Joy is distinguished p r i m a r i l y by the wide v a r i e t y of contexts and associations in which he places the term."

Riede, David George. "Swinburne: A Study of Romantic Mythmaking." DAI, XXXVII (1977), 2204A. V i r g i n i a Ph.D., 1975. "The second chapter is a detailed examination of Swinburne's c r i t i c a l essay on Blake," discussing "his important misreadings of Blake w i t h respect to... his own poetry."

Roe, Albert S. "William Blake's I l l u s t r a t i o n s to the Divine Comedy of Dante." Harvard Ph.D., 1950.

Printed as Blake's Illustrations to the Divine

Comedy (Princeton, 1953). Second P r i n t i n g (Princeton, 1967). A sound study of the ways in which Blake's own ideas and Giant Figures influenced his i l l u s t r a t i o n s to Dante. He has also published a catalogue (1965) and 2 a r t i c l e s (73 p p. , 1957-69) on Blake.

R o l l i n s , Mark Edwin. "The Necessity of A r t : A Study of William Blake." DAI, XXV (1975), 6156A. Massachusetts Ph.D., 1974. "A study of William Blake's philosophy of social and c u l t u r a l reform."

Rose, Edward J. "Mental Forms Creating: A Study in Blake's Thought and Symbols." Toronto Ph.D.,

1963. See DA, XXV (1964), 1923-4A. "The thesis contends that Blake's metaphors, images, and symbols describe the creative process" (p. i i of the t h e s i s ). He has published 24 a r t i c l e s (344 p p. , 1964-77) on Blake.

Rosenblum, Robert. "The International Style of 1800: A Study in Linear A b s t r a c t i o n. : New York University Ph.D., 1956. A work of major importance, in which Blake is considered on pp. 99-114. (The d i s s e r t a t i o n was published as Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art [1967; 1969; 1970] without most of the Blake section.) He has also published an a r t i c l e on Blake (24 p p. , 1975).

Roudalphi, Marthe-Augusta-Paulette. "William Blake: Rapports de l ' A r t et de la Pens£e." Paris Ph.D.,

Rudd, Margaret E. "William Blake and W. B. Yeats: A Study of Poetry and Mystical V i s i o n. " Reading University Ph.D., 1951. Printed as Divided Image: A Study of William Blake and W. B. Yeats (London, 1953). Reprinted (N.Y., 1970). The thesis is that Blake was a mystic and Yeats a magician. She also published another book on Blake (1956).

Ruhlman, John Arthur. "The Development of Los through the Prophecies of William Blake." C a l i f o r n i a (Berkeley) Ph.D., 1974.

Ryan, Robert Emmett. "The Structure and Function of the Cosmogonic Myth in William Blake's Jerusalem." DAI, XXXVII (1976), 339A. Case Western Reserve Ph.D., 1975. He has published an a r t i c l e on Blake (2 p p. , 1974).

S a b r i - T a b r i z i , Gholen Reza. "The Idea of Negation and Contrary Progression in Blake." Edinburgh Ph.D., 1970. Perhaps t h i s is his work p r i n t e d as The 'Heaven' and 'Hell' of William Blake (N.Y., 1973), the "main aim" of which " i s to present the whole of Blake in a coherent and comprehensible way," with emphasis upon Blake's "consistent materialism" and his "social context" (p. v i i ).

Sachs, Myron. "The Development of Blake's Extended Myth." DAI, XXXIII (1972), 2903A. Tufts Ph.D.,

Seems to be mostly about Tiriel and The French

Revolution.

S a l t e r , Thomas Norman. "Toward a Symbology of Form in the Illuminations of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience." DAI, XXXV ( 1 9 7 5 ) , 3737A. Massachusetts Ph.D., 1975.

Samuel, G. "Blake's View of Milton and Edward Young." London Ph.D., 1970.

Sanders, Jon Barry. "The Desire of Man: A Reading of Blake's The Four Zoas." DAI, XXXV (1974), 3698A. Oregon Ph.D., 1974. Uses "the a p p l i c a t i o n of allegory as an i n t e r p r e t i v e process of reading."

Sanzo, Eileen Barbara. "William Blake: Poet of the City i n the I n d u s t r i a l Age." DAI, XXXIII (1972). 764-5A. New York University Ph.D., 1971. "The study attempts to show how industry and i t s c i t i e s shaped his language," p a r t i c u l a r l y in Vala, Milton, and Jerusalem. She has published an a r t i c l e on Blake (15 p p. , 1971).

Schaupp, Roscoe Frederick. "Blake's ' C o r r e c t i o n ' of Milton i n Poem and P i c t u r e. " Ohio State Ph.D.,

1934. See Abstracts of Dissertations, Ohio State University, No. 15 (1934), 171-180.

Schicker, Stephen Mathias. "The Rainbow Beneath the Ground: A Study of the Descent i n t o Hell Metaphor in William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Ge>ard de Nerval's Aurelia, and Arthur Rimbaud's Une Saison en Enfer." DAI, XXXI (1969), 369A. Syracuse Ph.D., 1969. "The purpose of t h i s thesis is to demonstrate that... [the three works] redefine the nature of the descent i n t o hell as part of a process leading to psychic regeneration," foreshadowing Jung.

Schlieper, Reinhold. "William Blake, Philosopher: An Analysis of the Metaphysical System Underlying His Poetry." DAI, XXXV (1975), 6158-9A. Ball State Ed. D., 1974. Blake is "a l u c i d and consistent t h i n k e r. "

Scholz, Joachim Josef. "Blake and Novalis: A Comparison of Romanticism's High Arguments." DAI, XXXVIII (1977), 4808A. Chicago Ph.D., 1977. Blake and Novalis are " s u r p r i s i n g l y s i m i l a r " in t h e i r "arguments on... the effectiveness of poetry in 1 i f e. "

Schorer, Mark. "William Blake as a Radical."

Wisconsin Ph.D., 1936. See Summaries of Doctoral

Dissertations, University of Wisconsin, I (1937),

Printed as William Blake: The P o l i t i c s of Vision (N.Y., 1946). Reprinted (N.Y., 1959). An important examination of the radical element i n Blake's poetry and society. He also published 7 a r t i c l e s on Blake (43 p p. , 1935-46).

Schotz, Myra Glazer. "The A l t e r i n g Eye: William Blake and the Art of Parallax: An Approach to The Four Zoas." DAI, XXXVI (1975), 910-11A. Brandeis Ph.D., 1974.

Schuchard, Marsha Keith Mannatt. "Freemasonry, Secret S o c i e t i e s , and the Continuity of the Occult

Struck, Wilhelm. Der Einfluss Jacob Boehmes auf die englische Literature des 17. Jahrhunderts

(Berlin, 1936) Neue Deutsche Forschungen Abteilung

englische Philologie. Band 6. Rostock

dissertation, 1935.

Tandon, Jagdish Narain. "The influence on the

poetry of William Blake _sic~." University of

Agra Ph.D., 1967.

Tannenbaum, Leslie Warren. "Dark Visions of

Torment: Symbol and Structure in William

Blake's The Book of Urizen." DAI, XXXIII (1973),

6328A. Wisconsin Ph.D., 1972.

He has published one article on Blake (14 pp.,

T a y l e r , I r e n e. " V i s i o n a r y Forms D r a m a t i c : W i l l i a m B l a k e ' s I l l u s t r a t i o n s t o t h e P o e t r y o f Thomas G r a y. " S t a n f o r d P h. D. , 1967. See DA, XXIX ( 1 9 6 8 ) , 881A. Printed i n Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Gray ( P r i n c e t o n , 1 9 7 1 ). A p e r s u a s i v e commentary on B l a k e ' s 116 d e s i g n s. She has a l s o p u b l i s h e d 4 a r t i c l e s on Clake (86 p p. , 1 9 7 1 - 7 4 ).

T a y l o r , Clyde R u s s e l. " W i l l i a m Blake and t h e I d e o l o g y o f A r t. " DA, XXIX ( 1 9 6 8 ) , 277A. Wayne S t a t e Ph.D. , 1967. He has p u b l i s h e d one a r t i c l e on Blake (47 p p. , 1 9 6 8 ).

T a y l o r , Gary James. "A C r i t i c a l E d i t i o n o f The Marriage of Heaven and Hell w i t h A n n o t a t i o n s. " DAI, X X X I I I ( 1 9 7 2 ) , 2345-6A. Arkansas P h. D. , 1972. The 2 volumes i n c l u d e a f a c s i m i l e o f copy I and an a n t h o l o g y o f c r i t i c i s m o f t h e Marriage. He has p u b l i s h e d 1 a r t i c l e on Blake (1 p. , 1 9 7 3 ).

T a y l o r , J. A. " W i l l i a m B l a k e : The Radical C o n t e x t : A Study i n t h e R e l a t i o n s h i p Between B l a k e ' s Work and t h e Popular Radical C u l t u r e , 1790- 1 8 3 0. " Leeds P h. D. , 1970.

T a y l o r , P e t e r A l a n. "A Reading o f B l a k e ' s Milton." DAI, XXX ( 1 9 6 9 ) , 737-8A. C o n n e c t i c u t P h. D. , 1969. " B l a k e i s an a c t i v e p a r t i c i p a n t " i n t h e poem. He has p u b l i s h e d 2 a r t i c l e s on B l a k e (25 p p. , 1969- 7 4 ).

T a y l o r , R i c h a r d L o r i n g. " W i l l i a m B l a k e ' s Cosmogonic M y t h : The I r o n y o f O r i g i n s. " C a l i f o r n i a (Santa Barbara) P h. D. , 1970. A c c o r d i n g t o t h e a b s t r a c t , i t concludes t h a t " I n Jerusalem B l a k e abandons c r e a t i o n myth e n t i r e l y. "

T a y l o r , Ronald C l a y t o n. "The Semantics o f Time i n t h e L a t e r P o e t r y o f W i l l i a m B l a k e : A S t y l i s t i c S t u d y. " DAI, XXXVII ( 1 9 7 7 ) , 5857A. C a l i f o r n i a ( B e r k e l e y ) P h. D. , 1976. Deals e s p e c i a l l y w i t h " t h e broader a p p l i c a t i o n s o f temporal s e m a n t i c s. " He p u b l i s h e d an essay on Blake (13 p p. ) i n 1975.

T e b b e t t s , T e r r e l l L o u i s. "A C r i t i c a l Study o f Wake's America." DAI, XXXII ( 1 9 7 1 ) , 987-8A. Arkansas P h. D. , 1 9 7 1. "The essence o f t h e poem i s i n " t h e word " p r o p h e c y. "

T o l l e y , Michael J. " W i l l i a m B l a k e ' s Use o f t h e B i b l e. " London Ph.D.', 1974.

Vol. II (pp. 267-522) is a checklist of biblical

references. He has published 18 articles on

Blake (154 pp., 1962-74).

Trent, Robert J. "The Case Against Death:

Transformation of 'Generation' in the Writings

of William Blake." DAI, XXXVII (1976), 1573A.

New York University Ph.D., 1976.

Blake's attitude toward death is traced through

three stages.

Tzougros, Penelope Stephanie. "Hopkins and Blake:

A New Heaven and a New Earth." Toronto Ph.D., 1977.

Umetsu, Narumi. A Study of William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Blake Kenkyu [Studies]

(Tokyo, 1963).

A 383-page doctoral dissertation in Japanese. He

has also published 1 translation (1970) and

9 articles on Blake (72+ po., 1955-70).

Unruh, Donald John. "Jerusalem: The Primitive

Christian Vision of William Blake." DAI, XXXI

(1971), 1819A. Southern California Ph.D., 1970.

Jerusalem "follows 'primitive Christianity' rather

than the official Christian tradition."

Viscoli, Lois Katherine. "The Promethean Archetype."

DAI, XXXV (1975), 6114A. New Mexico Ph.D., 1975.

"Blake and Shelley dramatically illuminated the

core of the archjtype.''

V o g l e r , Thomas A l l e n. " P r e l u d e s t o V i s i o n : The Epic Venture i n B l a k e , W o r d s w o r t h , Keats and H a r t C r a n e. " Yale P h. D. , 1964. P r i n t e d as a book ( B e r k e l e y , Los A n g e l e s , London, 1 9 7 1 ). Chapter 3 ( " B l a k e : Mental F i g h t , " p p. , 39-

59. i s an i n t e l l i g e n t c l o s e r e a d i n g o f Milton as a " o r e l u d e " t o Jerusalem.

Wagenknecht, David A. " W i l l i a m Blake and t h e Idea o f P a s t o r a l. " Sussex D. P h i l. , 1 9 7 1. P u b l i s h e d as Blake's Night: W i l l i a m Blake and t h e Idea o f P a s t o r a l (Cambridge, M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 1 9 7 3 ). A l a b o r i o u s a n a l y s i s o f Spenserian p a s t o r a l elements i n B l a k e ' s e a r l y work and M i l t o n i c ones i n t h e l a t e r poems. He has a l s o p u b l i s h e d one a r t i c l e on Blake (1 p. , 1 9 7 4 ).

Walter, Jakob. William Blakes Nachleben in der

englischen Literature des neunzehnten und zwanzigsten

Jahrhunderts (Schaffhausen, 1925). Reprinted

(Schaffhausen, 1927). Zurich Ph.D.

Wang, A l f r e d S h i - p u. "The Imagery i n B l a k e ' s Minor P r o p h e c i e s. " DA, X X V I I I ( 1 9 6 8 ) , 3652A. Tulane P h. D. , 1967.

Ward, Marney Jean M c L a u g h l i n. " T e x t and Design i n B l a k e ' s D e v e l o p i n g M y t h. " DAI, XXXV ( 1 9 7 4 ) , 3704-5A. B r i t i s h Columbia P h. D. , 1974. Examines "a number o f c r u c i a l m o t i f s " i n Songs, Urizen, and Jerusalem. She has p u b l i s h e d 1 a r t i c l e on Blake (1 p. , 1 9 7 2 ).

W a r d l e , J. "Myth and Image i n Three Romantics: A Study o f B l a k e , S h e l l e y and Y e a t s. " Queen's

( B e l f a s t ) D^ h. D. , 1970. She has produced 2 a r t i c l e s on Blake (4 p p. , 1 9 6 7 - 6 8 ).

Warner, N i c h o l a s O l i v e r. " B l a k e ' s I c o n i c Mode: T r a d i t i o n and T r a n s f o r m a t i o n i n t h e Works o f W i l l i a m B l a k e. " DAI, XXXIX ( 1 9 7 8 ) , 877A. C a l i f o r n i a ( B e r k e l e y ) P h. D. , 1977. S t u d i e s "how Blake n o t o n l y adapts but t r a n s f o r m s t r a d i t i o n a l images and s y m b o l s. "

Warner, W i l l i a m R o b e r t. "The Composite A r t o f B l a k e ' s ' L a u g h i n g S o n g. ' " U n i v e r s i t y o f t h e P a c i f i c Ph.D. , 1975.

W a t e r s , Gregory Leo. " I. Conrad A i k e n : A Basis f o r C r i t i c i s m. I I. G. T. ' s ' W o r t h l e s s E n t e r p r i s e ' : A Study o f t h e N a r r a t o r i n G a s c o i g n e ' s 'The Adventures o f Master F. J. 1 I I I. Blake and R o s s e t t i. ' " DAI, XXV ( 1 9 7 4 ) , 3775-6A. Rutgers P h. D. , 1974. " R o s s e t t i seems t o have l e a r n e d l i t t l e from him [Blake]," and h i s work i s " o n e - d i m e n s i o n a l. "

W a t e r s , Louis A d d i s o n , J r. "The Idea o f Nature i n the P o e t r y o f W i l l i a m B l a k e. " DA, XXI ( 1 9 6 1 ) , 265-6A. Columbia P h. D. , 1 9 6 1. Shows seven stages i n B l a k e ' s t r e a t m e n t o f N a t u r e : 1) I n n o c e n c e ; 2) Sex; 3) Energy;

4. I m a g i n a t i o n ; 5) E x p e r i e n c e ; 6) D e c e i t ;
5. R e s t r a i n t.

Watson, Alan McCabe. " W i l l i a m B l a k e ' s I l l u s t r a t e d W r i t i n g s : The E a r l y P e r i o d. " DAI, XXX ( 1 9 6 9 ) , 1538A. New Mexico P h. D. , 1969. 'The w r i t e r has s i m p l y t r i e d t o see them [Blake's illustrations'] suggest t o t h e i m a g i n a t i o n when c o n f r o n t i n g them a t c l o s e q u a r t e r s. " He has p u b l i s h e d 1 a r t i c l e on Blake (9 p p. , 1 9 7 3 ).

W a x i e r , Robert P h i l l i p. " W i l l i a m B l a k e : The Sexual Dynamics o f h i s E a r l y I l l u m i n a t e d W o r k s. " DAI, XXXVII ( 1 9 7 6 ) , 995-6A. S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y o f New York (Stony Brook) P h. D. , 1976.

W e l c h , Dennis M a r t i n. " W i l l i a m B l a k e ' s A p o c a l y p s e : A T h e o - P s y c h o l o g i c a l I n t e r p r e t a t i o n. " DAI, X X X I I I ( 1 9 7 2 ) , 736A. Southern C a l i f o r n i a P h. D. , 1972. A t t e m p t " t o show how Blake sought t o permanentl y escape h i s t o r y. " He has p u b l i s h e d 2 a r t i c l e s on Blake (4 pp. , 1973).

W h i t e , Helen C. "The M y s t i c i s m o f W i l l i a m B l a k e. " Wisconsin P h. D. , 1924. P r i n t e d ( M a d i s o n , 1927) U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n S t u d i e s i n Language and L i t e r a t u r e , Number 23. R e p r i n t e d ( N. Y. , 1 9 6 4 ). A c l o s e comparison o f B l a k e ' s works and l i f e w i t h t h e m y s t i c a l t r a d i t i o n leads t o t h e c o n c l u s i o n t h a t he " i s n o t a g r e a t m y s t i c i n any sense t h a t means a n y t h i n g. "

W h i t e , :*ary E l i z a b e t h. "Woman's T r i u m p h : A Study o f t h e Changing Symbolic Values o f t h e Female i n t h e Works o f W i l l i a m B l a k e. " DAI, X X X I I I ( 1 9 7 2 ) , 2348A. Washington P h. D. , 1972.

W h i t e h e a d , F r e d e r i c k A l l a n. " S t u d i e s i n t h e S t r u c t u r e o f European H i s t o r y i n B l a k e ' s E p i c s. "

DAI, XXXV ( 1 9 7 5 ) , 7927-8A. Columbia P h. D. , 1972. " I t i s t h e t h e s i s o f t h i s s t u d y t h a t t h e m y t h i c - p s y c h o l o g i c a l and t h e s o c i a l - e c o n o m i c l e v e l s o f meaning are m u t u a l l y dependent i n B l a k e ' s p r o p h e t i c e p i c s , and t h a t the main s t r u c t u r e o f the e p i c s i s the r e p r e s e n t a t i o n o f t h e e n t i r e h i s t o r y o f European man." The t h e s i s i s summarized i n h i s " W i l l i a m Blake and Radical T r a d i t i o n. " Chapter 10 ( p p. 191-214) o f Weapons of Criticism: Marxism i n America and t h e L i t e r a r y T r a d i t i o n. Ed. Norman Rudich. Palo A l t o , C a l i f o r n i a , 1976.

W i l d , David W. "The Emergence o f L i t e r a c y (1780- 1 8 6 0 ) : W i l l i a m B l a k e , W i l l i a m C o b b e t t , Charles D i c k e n s. " Washington ( S e a t t l e ) P h. D. , 1972.

W i e l a n d - B u r s t o n , Joanne B a r b a r a. " B l a k e i n France: The Poet and t h e P a i n t e r as Seen by French C r i t i c s i n t h e N i n e t e e n t h and T w e n t i e t h C e n t u r i e s. " DAI, XXXIX ( 1 9 7 8 ) , 914A. V a n d e r b i l t P h. D. , 1977. " B l a k e semble a v o i r peu marque" l a l i t t e V a t u r e f r a n c a i s e. "

W i l f o n g , Susan Dupaul. ' " T h e A r c h i t e c t D i v i n e ' : The E v o l u t i o n o f B l a k e ' s Verbal and V i s u a l Imagery o f A r c h i t e c t u r e. " Harvard P h. D. , 1976.

W i l k e s , John E d w i n , I I I. " A e o l i a n V i s i t a t i o n s and the Harp D e f r a u d e d : Essays on Donne, B l a k e , Wordsworth, K e a t s , F l a u b e r t , Heine and James W r i g h t. " DAI, XXXV ( 1 9 7 4 ) , 1129A. C a l i f o r n i a (Santa Cruz) P h. D. , 1973. Close r e a d i n g s t o d i s c o v e r and i n t e r p r e t " s i g n a l i n s t a n c e s o f Romantic poets [sic] t e s t i n g t h e i r p o e t i c m a t e r i a l s i n o r d e r t o d e t e r m i n e w h e t h e r , and f o r how l o n g , t h e s e l f - g e n e r a t e d and s e l f - c o n t a i n e d w o r l d s t h e y a r e i n t h e a c t o f c r e a t i n g can be s u s t a i n e d. "

W i l k i n s o n , C a r o l y n. " P e r c e p t i o n , A c t i o n and C h a r a c t e r : The S t r u c t u r e o f B l a k e ' s Jerusalem." DAI, XXXV ( 1 9 7 5 ) , 1638-9A. M i c h i g a n S t a t e P h. D. ,

She i s " p r i m a r i l y concerned w i t h t h e q u e s t i o n o f p e r c e p t i o n i n Jerusalem, w i t h what c h a r a c t e r s p e r c e i v e and w i t h how t h e y a c t a c c o r d i n g t o t h e i r p e r c e p t i o n s , " w i t h "a p l a t e by p l a t e a n a l y s i s o f t h e n a r r a t i v e e v e n t s. "

W i l l s , James Thomas. " W i l l i a m B l a k e ' s Designs f o r Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress." T o r o n t o P h. D. , 1975. See DAI, XXXVIII ( 1 9 7 7 ) , 3525A. A c a r e f u l survey o f Bunyan i l l u s t r a t i o n s (1680-

1824. and a n a l y s i s o f B l a k e ' s Bunyan d e s i g n s , c o n c l u d i n g t h a t C h r i s t i a n ' s j o u r n e y i s c i r c u l a r ; t h e r e a r e 193 p l a t e s. He has p u b l i s h e d 1 a r t i c l e on Blake (6 p p. , 1 9 7 3 ).

W i l s o n , H. C. " B l a k e ' s C r i t i c i s m and P a i n t i n g o f t h e C a n t e r b u r y P i l g r i m s. " Washington P h. D. , 1 9 4 1 ; see Abstracts of [Washington] Theses, V ( 1 9 4 1 ) , 9 8 - 9 9.

W i l s o n , P a t r i c k Seymour. "A Study o f t h e Proper Names mentioned i n B l a k e ' s P o e t r y and P r o s e. " 3 v o l s. V i c t o r i a U n i v e r s i t y o f W e l l i n q t o n (New Zealand) P h. D. , 1952.