Blake web Sites:
http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/index.shtml
The Blake Archives: the best. Great reproductions of various copies of the
illuminated books. Good links to other Blake sites.
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/Blake_Concordance
An online concordance to Erdman"s edition of Blake"s complete poetry and prose.
A good fast way to find particular words or phrases in Blakešs work.
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~wblake/home1.html
Nelson Hilton"s site -- links to full electronic text of Erdman"s Complete Poetry
and Prose of William Blake, and to a well-annotated, fast-loading, black-and-white
version of the Songs (well worth checking out).
http://www.flyingsheep.com/blake/
Good chronology / timeline with some good links (but some dead links as well).
Standard Books:
Blake Records (2nd edition) by G. E. Bentley, Jr. (2004)
Every scrap of writing we have about William Blake.
The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake by G . E. Bentley, Jr. (2001)
The biography of Blake by the man who compiled the Blake records.
Easily the best biography of Blake.
Blake Books (1977; 2000) and Blake Books Supplement (1995) by G. E. Bentley, Jr.
Exhaustive catalogue and annotated bibliography by the man who knows
more about Blake than anybody.
A Blake Dictionary by S. Foster Damon, Revised Edition, with a new Foreword and
annotated bibliography by Morris Eaves. 1988.
Handy dictionary style distillation of Blake's books, characters, place names, etc. etc.
Very useful for quick info, but should not be taken as the final word.
Fearful Symmetry by Northrop Frye (1947)
The first great book on Blake's "system."
Blake: Prophet Against Empire, by David Erdman (1954, 1969, 1977)
The first great book on Blake and his historical context.
The Piper and the Bard by Robert Gleckner (1959)
The first great book on the Songs, and the sentimental favorite.
The Continuing City by Morton Paley (1983)
The best book around on the contexts for Jerusalem.
Blake and the Idea of the Book, by Joseph Viscomi (1993)
Great book on Blake's printmaking technique; Viscomi is himself a printmaker and one of
the brains behind the Blake Archive.
Blake / An Illustrated Quarterly (periodical)
The place to find the latest on Blake, as well as an annual review of Blake criticism and "Blake in
the Marketplace." Indexed online at http://www.rochester.edu/college/eng/blake/