johnson and blake

Samuel Johnson, looking authoritative.

Jack Lynch's guide to online resources for Johnson.

The Plan (i.e. proposal) for Johnson's Dictionary. The title page from the first edition.

Johnson's poem "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet."

The Blake Archive at UVa.

The Blake Society.

From UVa, eleven different versions of Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

A title page for Innocence and Experience (copy L).

A title page for Songs of Innocence.

A title page from another copy of Songs of Innocence.

One version of "The Little Black Boy"; page two from the same copy; page two from another copy (note the boys' colors in each).

One version of "The Lamb"; another version.

One version of "The Tyger"; another version.

The UVa guide to electronic editions of "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." One of many title pages.

The online Blake exhibit at Britain's Tate Gallery. The Tate's Web features (designed in part for secondary school students, I think) on Songs of Innocence and Experience.

A beautiful (but amateur) online display of all the plates from one copy of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. One plate from the Proverbs of Hell.