30 August 2005
The William Blake Archive <www.blakearchive.org> is pleased to announce
that
--The Archive has been designated an Approved Edition by the Modern
Language Association. This is the first time the organization has awarded
its "seal" to an electronic edition. The MLA's Committee on Scholarly
Editions has been fostering rigorous editorial standards for printed
editions since 1976. David V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of
William Blake_ received the MLA seal in 1981. The Committee's guidelines
for electronic editions were first published in 2004 as part of a major
revision of the Committee's editorial guidelines
(http://www.mla.org/cse_guidelines; see also Burnard, O'Keefe, and
Unsworth,_Electronic Textual Editing_, MLA/TEI, forthcoming 2006).
Previously, the Archive was the recipient of the MLA's Prize for a
Distinguished Scholarly Edition, 2003.
--The British Library has agreed to allow us to publish scholarly editions
of its Blake manuscripts. The Library's Blake holdings include some of
his most significant extant manuscripts, including the early illustrated
poe _Tiriel_; the notebook in which he drafted poetry, prose, and designs
for several decades; and _The Four Zoas_, the key "prophetic" work of his
middle years, on which he worked for about a decade. For the Blake
holdings of this and other contributors to the Archive, click Resources
for Further Research on the main page.
As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access
restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible
through the continuing support of the Library of Congress, the Institute
for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia,
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and by the cooperation of
the international array of libraries and museums that have generously
given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the
Archive.
Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors
Andrea Laue, technical editor
The William Blake Archive
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