25 May 2004

The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of electronic editions of The Song of Los, copies A and D. Both have been in the collection of the British Museum since the mid-nineteenth century; they join copy B from the Library of Congress, previously published in the Archive. Like all six extant copies of The Song of Los, A and D were richly color printed in 1795. With its divisions into sections titled "Africa" and "Asia," The Song of Los follows America (1793) and Europe (1794) as the last of Blake's "Continental Prophecies" that mingle contemporary events with a host of mythological motifs, both borrowed and invented.

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, by a major grant from the Preservation and Access Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities, by 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