Blake List — Volume 1999 : Issue 2

Today's Topics:
               Re: BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE CHECK
         Re: BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE CHECK
         baby
         Dylan Alexander Ross
         Re: Sorry all...
         Re: BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE CHECK (Blake & Shelley reception)
         Re: Dylan Alexander Ross
         Re: Dylan Alexander Ross
         Re: Dylan Alexander Ross
         Re: Dylan Alexander Ross
         Re: BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE CHECK

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Subject: Re: BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE CHECK
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:20:34 MET
From: "D.W. DOERRBECKER" 
To: Ralph Dumain , blake@albion.com

January 22nd, 1999

N&Q is the standard abbreviation for *Notes and Queries*.

DWDoerrbecker

Ralph Dumain wrote:

>           I assume N&Q is a journal, but I am unable to locate it.
>           Can someone provide me with more information,
>           particularly if this is an abbreviation
>           that stands for something else I could look up?

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Subject: Re: BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE CHECK
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 07:29:03 -0800
From: Daniel Zimmerman 
To: blake@albion.com
CC: daniel7@idt.net

Probably Notes & Queries.

Ralph Dumain wrote:
>
> In the spring 1998 issue of BLAKE: AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY, I found the
> following citation:
>
> Stauffer, Andrew M.  "The first known publication of Blake's poetry in
> America", N&Q 241 [n.s. 43] (1996): 42-43.
>
> I assume N&Q is a journal, but I am unable to locate it.  Can someone
> provide me with more information, particularly if this is an abbreviation
> that stands for something else I could look up?  It would be even better if
> someone could provide me with a copy of this article, but first things
> first.  Thanks.

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Subject: baby
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:34:08 -0000
From: "Dave & Bev Popely" 
To: "William Blake" 

Seth, how isd life? Please inform us abourt the baby. Sex, weight, name. I
hope all is going well. In your broken nights you'll have plenty of time to
read Blake. I am baatling on and learning how to be tenacious and discard my
short attention span. I really feel its time to do that, to not be part of
the unquestioning massess. ABlake is good for going against the flow.
What do you do to set up msuch a contact point? Do you study, teach or what?
Look forward to hearing from you,
Bev.

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Subject: Dylan Alexander Ross
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 99 13:57:19 -0800
From: Seth T. Ross 
To: blake@albion.com

Seth and Catherine Ross

We are delighted to announce the birth of our son
Dylan Alexander
on Saturday November 21 at 11:38 AM
at California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco

#########oooooo

Blakeans: I meant to send this out a while ago. It's been a great joy
to have Dylan around. Thanks for all your queries.
--Seth

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Subject: Re: Sorry all...
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 99 15:09:44 -0800
From: Seth T. Ross 
To: blake@albion.com
CC: ndeeter@concentric.net

I was pretty upset to the see the hoaxes come down the line. Even if
they weren't hoaxes, they wouldn't belong on the Blake List.

In the future, I suggest you check any potential security problems
against CERT "emergency response" site:
http://www.cert.org/

The danger of these kinds of hoaxes is that someday a malicious
message will be distributed and no one will believe the warnings.

--Seth

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Subject: Re: BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE CHECK (Blake & Shelley reception)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:15:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Ralph Dumain 
To: blake@albion.com

Thank you both.  Indeed, the correct journal is NOTES AND QUERIES, and I
retrieved the needed article this afternoon.  In it we learn that, contrary
to prior established scholarship, the very first publication of William
Blake in the USA was done by the Abolitionists, at a time when Blake was
still virtually unknown in England!  (Or am I wrong?)  Blake's anti-slavery
poem "The Little Black Boy" appeared in the NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD
in March 1842, soon followed by publication of some other of Blake's most
celebrated social protest poems from Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
I feel so proud to be an Amurican.

Unfortunately, I know little about Blake's early reception.  Will Dorfman's
BLAKE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY tell me all I need to know?  I had the
impression that Blake was practically unknown until Gilchrist at least,
maybe until Rossetti publicized him.  I hope I haven't just embarrassed myself.

For the sake of comparison: I just obtained a few fascinating articles about
Shelley's conflicting audiences and how he was received into both high and
low culture in the 1820s.  Eventually Shelley became popular among the
Chartists.  As far as I know the Chartists never heard of Blake.  But the
American Abolitionists did.  How did this come to be?

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Subject: Re: Dylan Alexander Ross
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 15:33:55 -0900
From: ndeeter 
To: blake@albion.com

Seth T. Ross wrote:
>
> Seth and Catherine Ross
>
> We are delighted to announce the birth of our son
> Dylan Alexander
> on Saturday November 21 at 11:38 AM
> at California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
>
> #########oooooo
>
> Blakeans: I meant to send this out a while ago. It's been a great joy
> to have Dylan around. Thanks for all your queries.
> --Seth

Congrats!

N

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Subject: Re: Dylan Alexander Ross
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:00:50 EST
From: GaryG332@aol.com
To: blake@albion.com

Seth & Catherine,

Major Congrats!!!

Be good parents!!!

Gary

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Subject: Re: Dylan Alexander Ross
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 15:01:21 +0100
From: Henriette Stavis 
To: blake@albion.com

Dear Seth and Catherine!

Congratulations on the birth of your son. I'm sure little Dylan will become
the light of your life.

Henriette

At 13:57 22-01-99 -0800, you wrote:
>Seth and Catherine Ross
>
>We are delighted to announce the birth of our son
>Dylan Alexander
>on Saturday November 21 at 11:38 AM
>at California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
>
>#########oooooo
>
>
>Blakeans: I meant to send this out a while ago. It's been a great joy
>to have Dylan around. Thanks for all your queries.
>--Seth
>
>
>

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Subject: Re: Dylan Alexander Ross
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:12:05 -0500
From: Al Mardeuse 
To: blake@albion.com

Congradulations to you both. We vicariously revel in your joy. Having 2 grown
sons myself I sometimes miss the wee ones.

Al MArdeuse

Seth T. Ross wrote:
>
> Seth and Catherine Ross
>
> We are delighted to announce the birth of our son
> Dylan Alexander
> on Saturday November 21 at 11:38 AM
> at California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco

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Subject: Re: BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE CHECK
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:03:32 -0600 (CST)
From: Erin Slattery 
To: blake@albion.com

Blake fans--
        Having lurked around on the list for a couple of months, I thought
I would jump in and respond to this post.  I'm a Master's student in
English at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and was stunned and
delighted to end up taking a Blake class last semester.  Still amazed,
still reading (and puzzling over) it all, esp. the epic works.
        In any case, I ran across this reference in an unsuccessful
attempt to trace Edgar Allan Poe's reading of Blake.  Stauffer's article
can be found in _Notes and Queries_ (U.S. journal), and
may be referenced in the MLA on-line Bibliography.  I believe the journal
is a standard holding for most university libraries--I'd be happy
to send a copy of the article.
Erin Slattery

On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Ralph Dumain wrote:

> In the spring 1998 issue of BLAKE: AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY, I found the
> following citation:
>
> Stauffer, Andrew M.  "The first known publication of Blake's poetry in
> America", N&Q 241 [n.s. 43] (1996): 42-43.
>
> I assume N&Q is a journal, but I am unable to locate it.  Can someone
> provide me with more information, particularly if this is an abbreviation
> that stands for something else I could look up?  It would be even better if
> someone could provide me with a copy of this article, but first things
> first.  Thanks.
>