G. E. Bentley, Jr. Blake Records. Second Edition.(Book review)

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G. E. Bentley, Jr. Blake Records. Second Edition. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xxxviii+943. Illus. $95.00.

I well remember the effect that G. E. Bentley, Jr.'s Blake Records (henceforth BR) had when it first appeared in 1969. In the world of Blake scholarship the most recent full biography then was Mona Wilson's of 1929, revised in 1948; there had been much fruitful research on Blake's life in the interim but there was no reliable single source to which one could turn for information about what was known. Its scope going from the earliest known ...

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