Listed here are some additional further readings concerning the works and issues touched on in that essay.

General background and biographical material

• Barker-Benfield, G. J., The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992.
• Bate, W. Jackson, The Burden of the Past and the English Poet. New York: W. W. Norton, 1970.
• Bindman, David, Blake as an Artist. Oxford: Phaidon, 1977. Sections one through three in particular cover vital aspects of Blake's graphic development and production neglected in the essay.
• George, M. Dorothy, London Life in the Eighteenth Century. Rpt. New York: Capricorn Books, 1965.
• Price, Martin, To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in order and energy from Dryden to Blake. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1965. [A wonderful study of the century, culminating in the final chaper on "Blake: Vision and Satire"]
• Smith, Kevin E., An Analysis of William Blake's Early Writings and Designs to 1790 including Songs of Innocence. Mellen Publishers, 1999.

re: Poetical Sketches

• Greenberg, Mark, ed., Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake's Poetical Sketches. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1996.
  [includes essays by Greenberg on "Poetical Sketches: Critical Pivots and Pirouettes"; Susan J. Wolfson on "Sketching Verbal Form: Blake's Poetical Sketches"; Stuart Peterfreund on "The Problem of Originality and Blake's Poetical Sketches"; Thomas A. Vogler on "Troping the Seasons: Blake's Helio-Poetics and the 'Golden Load'"; Vincent A. De Luca on "'Crouding After Night': Troping and the Sublime in Poetical Sketches"; Nelson Hilton on "The Rankest Draught" (i.e. "then she bore Pale desire"); and an afterword by Robert F. Gleckner]
• Lowery, Margaret Ruth, Windows of the Morning: A Critical Study of William Blake's Poetical Sketches, 1783. Yale Studies in English, vol 93 (1940). Rpt. N.p.: Archon Books, 1970.

re: "An Island in the Moon"

• England, Martha W., "Apprenticeship at the Haymarket?", in Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic, ed. David V. Erdman and John E. Grant. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1970. Pp.: 3-29. [on Blake and the popular comedy of Samuel Foote ("in 1784 everone knew Foote")]

re: Tiriel

• Hilton, Nelson, "Literal Tiriel Material," in Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of Method, eds. Dan Miller, Mark Bracher, and Donald Ault. Durham: Duke Univ, Press, 1987. Pp. 99-110.

re: The Book of Thel

Bogan, Nancy, William Blake: The Book of Thel: a Facsimile and a Critical Text. Providence: Browin Univ. Press, 1971.

re: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

• For material relating to particular poems, see the annotated bibliographies which accompany most titles in the Songs hypertext
• Gardner, Stanley, Blake's Innocence and Experience Retraced. London and New York: The Athlone Press and St. Martin's, 1986.
• _____, The Tyger, the Lamb and the Terrible Desart: Songs of Innocence and of Experience in its times and circumstance. London and Madison: Cygnus Arts and Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1998.

re: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Swedenborgianism

re: The French Revolution

• Halloran, William, "The French Revolution: Revelation's New Form," in Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic, ed. David V. Erdman and John E. Grant. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1970. Pp.: 30-56.

re: Visions of the Daughters of Albion

• Hilton, Nelson, "An Original Story," in Unnam'd Forms: Blake and Textuality, ed. Nelson Hilton and Thomas A. Vogler. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1986. [on the Blake / Wollstonecraft / Vindication of the Rights of Woman / Fuseli tangle]