[1772] - Blake apprenticed to the antiquarian engraver James Basire

William Blake (1757–1827), painted by Thomas Phillips, 1807

Useful Links and Further Reading

• Alfred Kazin, ‘An Introduction to William Blake’,
  http://www.multimedialibrary.com/Articles/kazin/alfredblake.asp
• Morris Eaves, Robert Essick and Joseph Viscomi, eds, ‘The William Blake Archive’,
  http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/
• ‘William Blake and Visual Culture’, special issue of ImageTexT, ed. Roger Whitson and Donald Ault,
  http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v3_2/
• Tate Britain, ‘William Blake Online’,
  http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/worksinfocus/blake/
• Victoria University Library, ‘G. E. Bentley – Blake Collection’,
  http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/special/bentley/blake_collection.htm
• The Art History Archive, ‘Henry Fuseli and William Blake: Masters of Gothic Romanticism’,
  http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/romanticism/Henry-Fuseli-William-Blake.html
• www.lilith-ezine.com, ‘The Gothic Life of William Blake: 1757–1827’,
  http://www.lilith-ezine.com/articles/williamblake1.html
• Robert N. Essick, ‘Blake, William (1757–1827)’, ODNB, online edn,
  http://www.oxforddnb.com/
• The Blake Society, ‘Homepage’,
  http://www.blakesociety.org/
• The British Library, ‘The Notebook of William Blake’,
  http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/blake/accessible/introduction.html
• Susan Matthews, ‘“Happy Copulation”: Blake, Visual Enthusiasm, and Gallery Culture’, Romanticism on the Net, 46 (2007),
  http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2007/v/n46/016140ar.html
• David V. Erdman, Blake: Prophet Against Empire (Princeton, NJ, 1965)
• Morton Paley, Energy and the Imagination: A Study of the Development of Blake’s Thought (Oxford, 1970)
• Zachary Leader, Reading Blake’s Songs (London, 1981)
• Jon Mee, Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Oxford, 1992)
• E. P. Thompson, Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law (Cambridge, 1993)
• Peter Ackroyd, Blake (London, 1995)
• Nelson Hilton, ‘Blakean Zen’, in Romanticism: A Critical Reader, ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford, 1995), 1–16
• V. A. de Luca, ‘Blake’s Concept of the Sublime’, in Romanticism: A Critical Reader, ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford, 1995), 17–54
• Morton Paley, The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake (Oxford, 2003)
• Joseph Viscomi, Blake and the Idea of the Book (Princeton, NJ, 2003)
• Nicholas M. Williams, ed., Palgrave Advances in William Blake Studies (Basingstoke, 2006)
• John Beer, William Blake: A Literary Life (Basingstoke, 2007)
• Robert Rix, William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity (Aldershot, 2007)
• Jonathan Roberts, William Blake’s Poetry: A Reader’s Guide (London, 2007)