I deleted my original post about the Archive because I sometimes babble incoherently. I'll let the site's editors speak for themselves:
Over the course of two centuries, respect for the prints, paintings, and poems of William Blake (1757-1827) has increased to a degree that would have astonished his contemporaries. Today both his poetry and visual art in several media are admired by a global audience. In the broadest terms, the William Blake Archive is a contemporary response to the needs of this dispersed and various audience of readers and viewers and to the corresponding needs of the collections where Blake's original works are currently held.
A free site on the World Wide Web since 1996 (http://www.blakearchive.org), the Blake Archive was conceived as an international public resource that would provide unified access to major works of visual and literary art that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility. A growing number of contributors have given the Archive permission to include thousands of Blake's images and texts without fees.
archived babbling incoherence is what blog posts are all about.
Posted by: clay banes | January 22, 2007 at 02:02 PM
This is, indeed, a phenomenal resource.
Posted by: Robert | January 22, 2007 at 03:13 PM