Notes
[1] David V. Erdman, ed., The Illuminated Blake (New York: Anchor Books, 1974).
[2] David Bindman, William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books (London: Thames & Hudson, 2000).
[3] From the introductory Note by F. W. Bateson, General ed., Longman Annotated English Poets, in The Complete Poems of William Blake (1971). This note was reproduced in the 2nd ed. (1989) but not in the 3rd ed. (2007).
[4] Quotations from Blake's works here follow the punctuation, etc., found in the Tate facsimile.
[5] See Fuller 25-26, where he discusses this matter more fully.
[6] In the same stanza, the words "sever'd" and "endevour'd" also appear.
[7] Joseph Viscomi, Blake and the Idea of the Book (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton UP, 1993).
[8] Jon Mee, Dangerous Enthusiasm (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1992).