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The primary purpose of this page is to collate Joyce's references to Blake (not many, indented below).

1757: 28Nov: born in London, 3rd of five children of shopkeeper James (hosiery) and wife Catherine

1761: first vision (God at window, terrifying)

1767: drawing school

1767/1769? begins writing poetry

1771-1778: leaves father's shop to learn engraving as apprentice

1779-1780: enters/drops out of Royal Academy (meets Flaxman and Fuseli)

c1779: Lear and Cordelia in Prison [Tate] [info]

?c1779-80: Charon; part of a face; Daughter of Niobe? [Tate]

c1780-5: allegory of the Bible; shins of an écorché male figure [Tate]

c1780-5: The Good Farmer; figures in a landscape [Tate]

no-date: unhappy romance with Polly Wood?

1782: 18Aug: marries Catherine Boucher (Butcher)

1782/1783? 50 copies of "Poetical Sketches" [etext]

1783: The Fall of Rosamond (after Thomas Stothard) [Tate]

1784: The Temple of Mirth (after Thomas Stothard) [Tate]

1784: death of father

1784: "An Island in the Moon" [etext]

1784-1787: runs printshop (fails)

c1785: Job, his Wife and his Friends: The Complaint of Job; Job's Wife and other sketches [Tate]

c1785: lower half of a Woman Playing a Harp [Tate]

c1785-90: Age Teaching Youth [Tate]

c1786: Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing [Tate] [info]

no-date: 'Tiriel' [etext]

c1786-9: sketches for 'Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana' [Tate]

1787: death of brother Robert (in a later vision, Robert will teach William the printing technique [info] for 'Innocence' et al)

1788: "All Religions are One" [etext] [pix-Java]

1788: "There is No Natural Religion" [etext1] [etext2] [pix-Java]

1788? annotation to Lavater [etext] to Swedenborg [etext] [etext2] [etext3]

1789: "Songs of Innocence" [illustrated] [pix-Java] [jpeg] title-page: [Tate] [Tate]

"that stony effigy in frozen music, horned and terrible, of the human form divine" [Eolus]

1789-90: "The Book of Thel" [etext] [pix-Java]

c1790: The House of Death [Tate]

c1790: two figures in a decorative border [Tate]

1790: "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" [etext] [illustrated] ditto [pix-Java] [pic] [6Mb HyperCard]

"A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of wings of excess. I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and time one livid final flame." [Nestor] "in my mind's darkness a sloth of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds." [Nestor] "Time's livid final flame leaps and, in the following darkness, ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry." [Circe]

1790-1800: living at Lambeth [info]

1791: letter

1791: "The French Revolution" [etext]

c1791: 'Oberon and Titania on a Lily' [info]

c1792-3: Los and Orc [Tate]

c1793: The Penance of Jane Shore in St Paul's Church [Tate]

1793: "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" [etext] [pix-Java] frontispiece [Tate] plate 4 [Tate]

1793: "For Children: The Gates of Paradise" [etext] [pix-Java]

1793: "America a Prophecy" [etext] [pix-Java]

1793-1818: 'Rossetti' notebook compiled [etext] 'To Nobodaddy' [etext] 'Merlin's Prophecy' [etext] 'Several Questions Answered' [etext]

"Whether these be sins or virtues old Nobodaddy will tell us at doomsday leet." [Scylla] "But the braggart boaster cried that an old Nobodaddy was in his cups" [Oxen]

"STEPHEN... (He taps his brow.) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king." [Circe]

"You would give your five wits for youth's proud livery he pranks in. Lineaments of gratified desire." [Scylla]

no-date: songs and ballads [etext]

1794: combined "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" [multipage] [Experience] [hypertext] [pix-Java] [10Mb HyperCard] [ms page] 'Infant Sorrow' [Tate] [Tate] 'Spring' [Tate]

1794/1795? 'Glad Day' (The Dance for Albion; Albion Rose) [pic] [info] [jpeg]

1794: "Europe: a Prophecy" [etext] [pix-Java] fragment of pp3-4 [Tate]

1794: 'The Ancient of Days' (God as an Architect, frontispiece to Europe) [jpeg] [pic] [pic] [jpeg]

1794: "The [First] Book of Urizen" [etext] [quotes] [multipage] [pix-Java] [jpeg] 'Teach these Souls to Fly' [Tate]

1795: letter

1795: "The Song of Los" [etext] [pix-Java]

1795: "The Book of Los" [etext] [multipage] [pix-Java]

"Sounds solid: made by the mallet of Los demiurgos. Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand?" [Proteus]

1795: "The Book of Ahania" [etext] [multipage] [pix-Java]

1795: God Judging Adam [Tate]

1795: Lamech and his Two Wives [Tate]

1795: The Good and Evil Angels [Tate]

1795: Elohim Creating Adam [Tate]

1795: Nebuchadnezzar [Tate] [pic] [jpeg] [jpeg]

1795: Newton [Tate] [pic] [jpeg] [jpeg]

1795: The House of Death [Tate]

c1795: Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection [Tate]

c1795: Pity [Tate] [info] [jpeg] [jpeg]

c1795: Satan Exulting over Eve [Tate]

c1795: The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (formerly called 'Hecate') [Tate] [info]

1795-1800: 'A Breach in a City, the Morning after the Battle' [pic]

1796: letter

1797: illustrations for Allen's `History of England' (all after Fuseli)

• Wat Tyler and the Tax-Gatherer [Tate]
• King John Absolved by Pandulph [Tate]
• Queen Elizabeth and Essex [Tate]
• Alfred and the Neat-Herd's Wife [Tate]

1797: "Vala, or the Four Zoas" [1st] [kabbalah?]

"DOLLY GRAY (From her balcony waves her handkerchief, giving the sign of the heroine of Jericho.) Rahab. [8th]" [Circe]

"(Gazelles are leaping, feeding on the mountains. Near are lakes. Round their shores file shadows black of cedargroves. Aroma rises, a strong hairgrowth of resin. It burns, the orient, a sky of sapphire, cleft by the bronze flight of eagles. Under it lies the womancity, [9th] nude, white, still, cool, in luxury. A fountain murmurs among damask roses. Mammoth roses murmur of scarlet winegrapes. A wine of shame, lust, blood exudes, strangely murmuring.)" [Circe]

1797: illustrations for 'Night Thoughts' [info&pix-3pg] annotations [etext]

1798: annotations to Watson's 'Apology for the Bible' [etext] to Bacon [etext]

no-date: annotations on Dante [etext] on Reynolds [etext] on Catholicism [etext]

1799: letter, another, another

1799: Christ Blessing the Little Children [Tate]

1799: The Flight into Egypt [Tate]

c1799-1800: Bathsheba at the Bath [Tate]

c1799-1800: Christ the Mediator: Christ Pleading before the Father for St Mary Magdalene [Tate]

c1799-1800: Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf [Tate]

c1799-1800: The Agony in the Garden [Tate]

c1799-1800: The Body of Christ Borne to the Tomb [Tate]

1799-1800(?): "Job and his Daughters" [pic]

1800: 06May: letter to Hayley [etext]

"I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and time one livid final flame." [Nestor] "His words were then these as followeth: Know all men, he said, time's ruins build eternity's mansions." [Oxen] "Time's livid final flame leaps and, in the following darkness, ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry." [Circe]

1800-1803: living in Felpham under patronage of Hayley [letters] [cottage] landscape [Tate]

c1800: The Blasphemer [Tate]

?c1800-10: A Man Standing over a Figure Reclining on a Bed [Tate]

c1801: 'Portrait of Shakespeare' [info]

1803: tried for treasonous statement 'Damn the king'

1803: The Death of the Virgin [Tate]

c1803: Blake writes "Auguries of Innocence" [etext] ditto and "William Bond" [etext]

"The harlot's cry from street to street Shall weave old England's windingsheet." [Nestor] "STEPHEN The harlot's cry from street to street Shall weave Old Ireland's windingsheet." [Circe]

"Blake wrote: I wonder if William Bond will die For assuredly he is very ill. Alas, poor William!" [PoA5]

c1803: "The Mental Traveller"

c1803-5: Judas Betrays Him [Tate]

c1803-5: The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne [Tate] [sketch]

1804-1808/1818? "Milton a Poem" [etext] [pix-Java] [crit]

"Sounds solid: made by the mallet of Los demiurgos. Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand?" [Proteus] "Seven is dear to the mystic mind. The shining seven W.B. calls them." (closer to Yeats) [Scylla] "Through spaces smaller than red globules of man's blood they creepycrawl after buttocks into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow." [Scylla] "Cease to strive." [Scylla] "Along an infinite invisible tightrope taut from zenith to nadir the End of the World..." [Circe]

1804-1820: 'Jerusalem' [etext] [quotes]

c1805: sketch for 'Christ Girding Himself with Strength' [Tate]

c1805: drawings by wife Catherine [Tate-no pic?]

c1805: David Delivered out of Many Waters [Tate]

c1805: Satan in his Original Glory: 'Thou wast Perfect till Iniquity was Found in Thee' [Tate]

c1805: The Crucifixion: 'Behold Thy Mother' [Tate]

c1805: The Entombment [Tate]

c1805: The River of Life [Tate]

c1805: The Soul Hovering over the Body Reluctantly Parting with Life [Tate]

?1805: The Spiritual Form of Pitt Guiding Behemoth [Tate]

c1805-9: The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan [Tate]

c1805-10: Standing Figure with One Arm Raised [Tate] Standing Figure with Arms at his Side [Tate]

?c1805-10: sketch for `The Fall of the Rebel Angels'?; Standing Figure with Flaming Hair [Tate]

?c1805-10: Standing Figure Holding a Spear [Tate]

1805-1810: "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun" [pic] [jpeg]

1807: 'Jaques and the Wounded Stag' [info]

c?1807: Seraphim [Tate]

no-date: "The Everlasting Gospel" [etext]

1808: exhibits watercolors at Royal Academy

1808: Thomas Butts commissions illustrations to Milton's Paradise Lost [pix]

1809: private exhibition [catalog]

1809: prospectus for Chaucer [etext] [more]

?1809: illustrations to Thomas Gray [pix] 'The Bard' [Tate]

1809: 'Fiery Pegasus' [info]

1810: "A Vision of the Last Judgment" [etext]

"Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it. A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of wings of excess." [Nestor] "STEPHEN... History to blame. Fabled by mothers of memory." [Circe]

?1811: An Allegory of the Spiritual Condition of Man [Tate]

1816: rates a mention in a UK biographical dictionary

no-date: annotations on insanity [etext] on Berkeley [etext]

1818: John Linnell begins patronage [letters]

1819: Blake-Varley sketchbook: drawings for 'A Figure Standing in a Gothic Apse' [Tate] A Figure Standing in a Gothic Apse. Verso: drawings for 'The Empress Maud in Bed' [Tate]

c1819: The Head of the Ghost of a Flea. Verso: A Profile and a Reduced Drawing of Milton's First Wife [Tate]

c1819-20: The Ghost of a Flea (1st visionary portrait) [Tate] [pic]

c1819-20?: Elisha in the Chamber on the Wall [Tate]

1820: "For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise" [etext] [pix-Java]

c1820-5: Epitome of James Hervey's 'Meditations among the Tombs' [Tate]

c1820-5: Winter [Tate]

1821: woodcuts for Thornton's 'The Pastorals of Virgil'

• Frontispiece: Thenot and Colinet [Tate]
• Thenot and Colinet [Tate]
• Thenot Remonstrates with Colinet [Tate] [Tate]
• Thenot and Colinet Converse Seated between Two Trees [Tate] [Tate]
• Thenot Remonstrates with Colinet: Lightfoot in the Distance [Tate] [Tate]
• Thenot, with Colinet Waving his Arms in Sorrow [Tate] [Tate]
• The Blighted Corn [Tate] [Tate]
• Nor Fox, nor Wolf, nor Rat among our Sheep [Tate] [Tate]
• Sabrina's Silvery Flood [Tate] [Tate]
• Colinet's Fond Desire Strange Lands to Know [Tate] [Tate]
• A Rolling Stone is ever Bare of Moss [Tate] [Tate]
• Colinet Rests by a Stream at Night [Tate] [Tate]
• Colinet with his Shepherd's Pipe, Mocked by Two Boys [Tate] [Tate]
• For him Our Yearly Wakes and Feasts We Hold [Tate] [Tate]
• Thenot and Colinet Folding their Flocks together at Sunset [Tate] [Tate]
• Thenot and Colinet at Supper [Tate] [Tate]
• With Songs the Jovial Hinds Return from Plow [Tate] [Tate]
• And Unyok'd Heifers, Loitering Homewards, Low [Tate] [Tate]

c1821-3: Every Man also Gave him a Piece of Money. Verso: God the Father with Attendant Angels [Tate]

1822: "On Homers Poetry" [etext] and "On Virgil" [etext] [pix-Java]

1822: "The Ghost of Abel" [etext] [pix-Java]

1822: "The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins" [pic]

1823: lifemask made [info&pic][pic]

1824: ill-health begins (gallstones, jaundice)

1824: anthologised in chimney-sweep book

1824: The Hiding of Moses [Tate]

1825? 'Queen Katherine's Dream' [info] [jpeg]

1825: self-portrait [pic]

1825: illustrations for 'The Book of Job' [info] [pix] [4Mb HyperCard]

• title-page [Tate]
• Job and his Family [Tate]
• Satan before the Throne of God [Tate]
• Job's Sons and Daughters Overwhelmed by Satan [Tate]
• The Messengers tell Job of his Misfortunes [Tate]
• Satan Going Forth from the Presence of the Lord, and Job's Charity [Tate]
• Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils [Tate] [Tate] [pic] [jpeg] [jpeg]
• Job's Comforters [Tate]
• Job's Despair [Tate]
• The Vision of Eliphaz [Tate]
• Job Rebuked by his Friends [Tate]
• Job's Evil Dreams [Tate]
• The Wrath of Elihu [Tate]
• The Lord Answering Job out of the Whirlwind [Tate]
• When the Morning Stars Sang Together [Tate]
• Behemoth and Leviathan [Tate]
• The Fall of Satan [Tate]
• The Vision of Christ [Tate]
• Job's Sacrifice [Tate]
• Every Man also Gave him a Piece of Money [Tate]
• Job and his Daughters [Tate]
• Job and his Family Restored to Prosperity [Tate]

1825: Linnell commissions illustrations to Dante (published 1827?)

• Dante and Virgil Penetrating the Forest [Tate] [pic]
• The Inscription over the Gate [Tate]
• Homer and the Ancient Poets [Tate]
• Cerberus [Tate]
• Plutus [Tate]
• The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides [Tate]
• The Simoniac Pope [Tate]
• The Devils, with Dante and Virgil by the Side of the Pool [Tate]
• The Hypocrites with Caiaphas. Verso: Sketch of a Stooping Figure [Tate]
• The Laborious Passage along the Rocks [Tate]
• The Serpent Attacking Buoso Donati. Verso: A Man with a Transparent Hood over his Head [Tate]
• The Pit of Disease: The Falsifiers [Tate]
• The Primaeval Giants Sunk in the Soil [Tate]
• The Punishment of the Thieves [Tate]
• Virgil Girding Dante's Brow with a Rush [Tate]
• The Ascent of the Mountain of Purgatory [Tate]
• Dante and Virgil Approaching the Angel Who Guards the Entrance of Purgatory [Tate]
• The Rock Sculptured with the Recovery of the Ark and the Annunciation [Tate]
• Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car [Tate]
• Dante in the Empyrean, Drinking at the River of Light [Tate]
• The Circle of the Lustful: Francesca da Rimini (The Whirlwind of Lovers) [Tate] [Tate][pic] [jpeg]
• Ciampolo the Barrator Tormented by the Devils [Tate] [Tate]
• The Baffled Devils Fighting [Tate] [Tate]
• The Six-Footed Serpent Attacking Agnolo Brunelleschi [Tate] [Tate]
• The Serpent Attacking Buoso Donati [Tate] [Tate]
• The Pit of Disease: The Falsifiers [Tate] [Tate]
• Dante Striking against Bocca Degli Abati [Tate] [Tate]
• composition sketch? [Tate]

c1825-7: The Crucifixion [Tate]

1826: "Laocoön" [etext] [quotes] [jpeg] [pix-Java] [essay]

c1826: Count Ugolino and his Sons in Prison [Tate] The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve [Tate] [jpeg] [pic] [jpeg]

1827: George Cumberland's Card [Tate]

1827: annotations on Lord's Prayer [etext]

no-date: The Circumcision [Tate]

1827: 12Aug: dies, unmarked grave at Bunhill Fields

1831: 18Oct: death of wife

1847: Apr: attendant named 'Palmer' in British Museum sells Blake notebook to DG Rossetti for 0/10/0

1863: Gilchrist's biography

1889: Yeats begins study of Blake, published 1893

1924: Foster's "Blake's Philosophy and Symbols"

1948: 26yo Allen Ginsberg visited by vision of WB [cite]

1954: Erdman's "Prophet against Emire"

1964: Hirsch's "Introduction to Blake"

1965: Foster's "Blake's Dictionary"

etexts: Hilton

bios: Keynes, Online, Union, shortish, Encarta, InComp, LitKicks, Poets, short, timeline, VanMorrison

pix: Google, thumbed, cgfa, misc, Emory, many-undated, few

poems: eMule, ftp, Hogan, DeadPoets, KCHS, multipage, searchable, academic

quotes: Barger, Penn

links: Penn, Klimoff, HLH, Union, Record, Google

crit: SMarx, Kazin, Mooney, themes-multi, themes-short, essays, ditto, glossary

chat: bbs, email list, archives

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Ulysses:
chapters: summary : anchors : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12a 12b 13 14a 14b 15a 15b 15c 15d 16a 16b 17a 17b 18a 18b
notes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
reference: Bloom : clocktime : prices : schemata : Tower : riddles : errors : Homeric parallels : [B-L Odyssey] : Eolus tropes : parable : Oxen : Circe : 1904 : Thom's : Gold Cup : Seaside Girls : M'appari : acatalectic : search
riddles: overview : Rudy : condom : Gerty : Hades : Strand : murder : Eccles
maps: Ulysses : WRocks : Strand : VR tour : aerial tour : Dublin : Leinster : Ireland : Europe
editing: etexts : lapses : Gabler : capitals : commas : compounds : deletes : punct : typists
drafts: prequel : Proteus : Cyclops : Circe
closereadings: notes : Oxen : Circe

Finnegans Wake:
txt: [I.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 II.1 2 3 4 III.1 2 3 4 IV] : [HTML]
shorter: main : I.1-4 : 5-8 : II.1-2 : 3-4 : III.1-2 : 3 : 4 : IV
reference: thunder : Quinet : waves : [MP3 ALP] : FrALP : ItalALP : ch4 digest : Finn's Hotel : JAJquotes : search
drafts: NewGame : ROC : Kev : B&P : T&I : HCE : Mmlj : Cad : Rev : Pacata
closereadings: notes : ROC : T&S : Kev : B&P : T&I : HCE : Mmlj : Cad
theory: AI : archetypes : WakeOS : notes : origin : Scribble

Portrait:
ref: main : ch1 : ch1 notes : ch2 : 3 : 4 : 5a : 5b : Pinamonti : [notes] : [Cave] : [Gabler]

SHero: outline : quotes : PoA04

Dubliners:
etexts: Sis : Sis04 : Sis05 : Enc : Araby : Evel : After : 2Gall : Board : LitCl : Cntr : Clay : Pain : Ivy : Moth : Grace : Dead
guides: main : [Cave] : [Peng]

Other:
Exiles: Ex1 : 2 : 3

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