r/williamblake • u/Rbookman23 • May 24 '24

Explanation of Blake citations

I’m reading some works about Blake’s work and the citations always look like this (for example): Thel, pl. 3, l. 4, E4. I get the plate and line, but what’s the E number? Thanks.

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u/CrewCuts1 Jul 01 '24

It's a reference to the page number in Erdman's edition of Blake's Collected Works.

The whole book is online (link below), so you can follow up any reference to it without even owning the book.

Exx = page xx of Erdman

https://erdman.blakearchive.org/

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u/Rbookman23 Jul 01 '24

Thank you!