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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

'No one has ever charged Blake with being too explicit' - G.A. Rosso Blake 'deliberately exercised the viewer's imagination; he did not deliberately frustrate it' - J. Viscomi Two of my favourite quotes about Blake

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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I'm super excited to be chatting to The Byron Society about how volcanoes have shaped the Gothic and why Lord Byron was the ultimate 'Volcanic Gothic' celebrity. Featuring cameos from Jo March, Dracula & the Dark Lord Sauron! 📆 26/02/2026 5:30 pm. Online. 🎟️ www.thebyronsociety.com/events/volca...

Poster with a painting of Vesuvius in eruption. Text: A Byron Society Lecture. Volcanic Gothic: From Lord Byron to Lord of the Rings
Start Date & Time: 26/02/2026 5:30 pm. Location: Online. Speakers
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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It's that time of the year again! Cold December nights and 'The Box of Delights'. #theboxofdelights

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Dr Lisa Gee @lis4g33.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Silvia Riccardi who wrote the fab bit.ly/DanteHayley in bit.ly/HayleyEssays has a new monograph out: Dark Romanticism: Literature, Art, and the Body. Check it out: buff.ly/zwJnsqw

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Dr Lisa Gee @lis4g33.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Interested in #WilliamBlake? Read @jasonpaulwhittaker.bsky.social & @urthonaunbound.bsky.social’s: “‘Be My Enemy for Friendship’s Sake’: Hayley & Blake’s Biographers” bit.ly/BME4FS in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #Blake #romanticism #lifewriting #biography #18thC #c18th (vid: book opens to show chapter)

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Dr Lisa Gee @lis4g33.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Interested in #WilliamBlake &/or biography? Read @jasonpaulwhittaker.bsky.social & @urthonaunbound.bsky.social’s: “‘Be My Enemy for Friendship’s Sake’: Hayley and Blake’s Biographers” bit.ly/BME4FS in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #Blake #romanticism #lifewriting #biography #18thC #c18th

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Check out the new book on 'William Hayley' edited by Lisa Gee and Mark Crosby. Such an interesting and important book! And not only because @jasonpaulwhittaker.bsky.social and I have a joint chapter on the role of Blake's biographers! #williamblake #williamhayley #bookpost

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

First week with set reading so I'm breaking into the "To Read' pile. Was recommended Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian' a few weeks ago so starting with that!

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blakecottagetrust.bsky.social @blakecottagetrust.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The Blake Cottage Trust is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a £243,954‬ grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support essential conservation and‬ planning efforts for Blake’s Cottage, in Felpham, the historic Sussex home of visionary poet‬ and artist William Blake.

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Trying something new. Watching Korean series 'Newtopia' with the subtitles (and no dubbing). It's the first Korean show I've seen and it is very interesting. I'll keep you posted #TrySomethingNew #Newtopia #Subtitles

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The Blake Society @blakesociety.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

THE URIZEN CYCLE, Wed 26 February, 7:30 PM (UK time) on zoom. Dr Annise Rogers discusses Blake's central character Urizen, and proposes 'the Urizen Cycle' as a new way of understanding his mythological system. All are welcome. More info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/uriz...

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The Urizen Cycle - The Blake Society

Annise Rogers discusses Blake's character Urizen, and and proposes 'The Urizen Cycle' as a way of understanding his mythological system.

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

On 26th Feb I will give a (free online) talk for @blakesociety.bsky.social in which I will re-examine the importance of Urizen in Blake's mythological structure. For more details see: blakesociety.org/product/uriz...

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The Urizen Cycle - The Blake Society

Annise Rogers discusses Blake's character Urizen, and and proposes 'The Urizen Cycle' as a way of understanding his mythological system.

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Bookpost! After years of searching, I managed to grab this at an amazing bargain price! Such an important book when studying 'The Four Zoas' 'The Four Zoas' by William Blake A Photographic Facsimile of the Manuscript with Commentary on the Illuminations' by Tramontano Magno and Erdman! #Blake

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Just heard that my latest article has been published in Blake Quarterly - alongside exciting-looking contributions from @luisacale.bsky.social @urthonaunbound.bsky.social & Mark Crosby. I discuss artworks by Sokari Douglas Camp, Hew Locke, and Jazzmen-Lee Johnson blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...

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Vol. 58 no. 3: Winter 2024–25 | Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly

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Global Blake @globalblake.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Our Newsletter has gone out to all our subscribers. It includes info on the Spring/Summer 'In Conversation' series, our latest podcast and a brilliant review by @jodielmarley.bsky.social. If you would like to subscribe to our monthly Newsletter please go to: globalblake.com/newsletter/

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A long overdue release… My research website is now live! Subscribe, follow, lurk… My Instagram followers got first pick on the kinda content they want to see, but I’ll be releasing updates on my Marie Curie project, DEATHRIT + some fun things discovered in the archives! deathrit.wordpress.com

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DEATHRIT

Death, Ritual, & Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century

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Jason Whittaker @jasonpaulwhittaker.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Just before Christmas, I had the immense pleasure of visiting the exhibition William Blake in his Age in Turin. You can see my video review of the exhibition at www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAy9...

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In the Age of William Blake: Blake in Turin

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Jason Whittaker @jasonpaulwhittaker.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Live today: the latest episode of Visionary with @jodielmarley.bsky.social on Yeats, Blake and mysticism is now available via Spotify, Amazon and Apple, or on the @globalblake.bsky.social web site, globalblake.com/podcasts/. Listen now at open.spotify.com/episode/3iIi...

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Yeats, Blake and Mysticism

Visionary: How William Blake Changed the World · Episode

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Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

my podcast episode with @jasonpaulwhittaker.bsky.social & @globalblake.bsky.social on Blake and Yeats is out now! Link below for a fantastic conversation 🌠 we covered Yeats' Blake edition, the "Irish Blake" myth, Blake & the occult, both authors' use of systems, Blakean Yeats poems, & so much more

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My morning: 6.30 - torrential rain (got absolutely soaked). 7.30 - blizzard.

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Global Blake @globalblake.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Please join us this upcoming Monday (2 December), for a talk by William Rubel who will consider some of the many readings of Blake's 'The Fly'. The talk is FREE via Zoom and starts at 7pm UK time. You can find details, including a registration link, at: globalblake.com/events/

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

#Blake's birthday: lingering on this plate, a single-leaf design originally produced for TheBookOfThel, reprinted without the text, given a new leaf of life with a new emblematic caption, 'Does God take care of these', an existential line that prompts Songs of Experience. @blakesociety.bsky.social

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The Blake Society @blakesociety.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy birthday William Blake! Today we release issue 5 of VALA, the Journal of the Blake Society, based around the not inconsiderable subject of 'God'. You can download if for free from our website blakesociety.org/vala/

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy birthday to William Blake! 267 years today! For your enjoyment, one of my favourite Blake quotes: 'Thou little diminutive portion that darst be a counterpart'

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Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy 267th birthday, William Blake 🌠🎂 photos from the Tate & the @blakesociety.bsky.social grave unveiling. "For every thing that lives is holy", The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1789. Blake's birthday is also my PhD viva anniversary. The coincidence makes me feel the man is looking out for me 💜

Plate from The Book of Thel, a favourite Blake poem, at the Tate Britain. Thel looks down at two figures embracing beneath her.

William Blake's grave, surrounded by flowers and candles, on the day it was unveiled by the Blake Society in 2018.

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Global Blake @globalblake.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy 267th birthday to William Blake, who himself wrote: 'Born 28 Novr 1757 in London & has died several times since'!

Front page of William Blake's manuscript poem 'Vala, or The Four Zoas'

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The Blake Society @blakesociety.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy 267th birthday to our favourite poet/artist/printer/visionary William Blake! Join us on zoom this evening for the launch party of issue 5 of VALA, the Journal of the Blake Society. Register here blakesociety.org/product/blak... and head to blakesociety.org/vala/ to download the new issue 🎉🎈🎂

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

'The Box of Delights' is my traditional Christmas watch! But the new remastered Blu-ray with special features for the 40th anniversary! 😊

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Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Decided to be useful and made a William Blake studies starter pack! Please let me know if you'd like to be added or if you know anyone who should be on the list 🌠 go.bsky.app/3Xa1KJb

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I announced my new book last week but remember, whoever you are, that you can still buy my last book—Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature—for a quite reasonable price. Featuring Arthur Conan Doyle, dinosaurian jabberwocks, and more: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

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Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature

Cambridge Core - History of Science: General Interest - Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature

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Dr Kath @dr-kath.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

This is my humble attempt at a starter back for literary studies. Please feel free to join. go.bsky.app/9i1XbVC

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Global Blake @globalblake.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Join us for 'Musical Afterlives', a FREE one-day, online symposium exploring musical settings of Blake's poetry & his inspiration on classical & popular artists. Date: 4 November (10.30-18.30, UK Time) Keynote: Barry Miles To register & for more info please go to: globalblake.com/symposium-mu...

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Before this week I had never seen #beetlejuice! Huge thanks to Jason for recommending that I watch this! By far my favourite Tim Burton film and in my top favourite films too! #beetlejuice

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Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

In case you missed it, our podcast review of Blake studies at BARS 2024 for @globalblake.bsky.social is live! Link below, 2nd on the scrolling list Tysm to @sharonchoe.bsky.social @urthonaunbound.bsky.social Jake Elliott & Hannah McAuliffe for a wonderful conversation 💜 globalblake.com/podcasts/

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PODCASTS – Global Blake Network

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Wishing a huge non-thank you to the absolute idiot in my neighbourhood who decided that now was the appropriate time for loud music with a strong bass line! It's not just coming through the wall, it's coming through the closed windows too! 🙄

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

PhD thesis with amendments handed in! End of an era (a very long Blakean era)! #PhD #PhDone

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,448,949!

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Why are thesis amendments so much harder and more stressful than the years you spent on the thesis?!?! #PhD #PhdLife #PhdChat #PostPhD

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Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

So all my work is available in one place, here's a thread of my work that's available online, with links 💫 1/ Talk for @globalblake.bsky.social on Blake, the Yeatses, and the inheritance of their book A Vision youtu.be/idOUgR-A8os?...

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Global Blake: Jodie Marley - What the Yeatses Partly Learned

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

After 2 separate bookshops were unable to find their copies of this book (staff member helping me at each shop had themself put it on the shelf), 1 shop ordering me a copy that didn't arrive (reason unknown), I finally gave in and ordered it online. So want to read but worried I'm cursed! 😬

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Looked up the basics of coding/programming and those ICT flowcharts we did are a type of coding?!?! I loved those lessons! I made a 7-way traffic system with touch-controlled pedestrian crossings & time-tabled train crossings in 30 minutes when I was 15 - NO-ONE told me this was coding!

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Got to love the secondhand book selection at Heffers where I managed to get seven (yes seven!) William Blake books for just over £80!!! What a spectacular end to my Cambridge adventure! #books #secondhand #williamblake #secondhandbooks

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Loving all the different things you can find in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens! Everything is so green after the torrential downpour of yesterday! #Glasgow #GlasgowBotanicGardens #BARS2024

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

My new devilled egg is helping me out with my thesis amendments! #PhD #phdlife #JellyCat #jellycatdevilledegg

Jelly Cat Devilled Egg sitting on Keynes version of Night the Seventh A by William Blake. On a chair in the garden.

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

Found this little fellow in my fruit packet so I gave them the last raspberry. (They deserved it for the 2 days they had obviously spent in the fridge.)

Little green insect on the rim of a plastic cup

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Giving a talk tonight on Blake and Milton's 'Samson Agonistes' with @globalblake.bsky.social titled '‘thy young hands tore human limbs, and gorged human flesh!’: 'Poetical Sketches' and Blake’s development of Samson'. If you fancy joining us please visit: globalblake.com/events #Blake #Milton

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

I wonder what I will be doing later this evening? 🤣🤣🤣

Pink sparkling wine in glass on top of the novel 'The Last Legion' by Valerio Massimo Manfredi.

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

Yep, evening is definitely my favourite time.

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Annise Rogers @urthonaunbound.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

In the ongoing saga of train signage we have moved on from teabags in toilets, to toasters on trains! Who has been making toast in the carriages?!?!? 😂 🍞🚆🚃

Sign above an electrical socket on a train saying 'No toasters or hairdryers please!'

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