DIGITAL BLAKE

Jerusalem

 Plate 64
EDITED BY

David V. Erdman

eE /beta -- this release offered for proof-reading
    please report errors to 
    blaketxt@virtual.park.uga.edu/

In a letter signed March 14, 1995, David V. Erdman and Virginia
B. Erdman convey David V. Erdman's permission to make freely
available a digital version of his edition of The Complete
Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Such unselfish generosity is
characteristic of David Erdman's political and intellectual
commitment throughout a life spent building up Jerusalem and 
making Blake more accessible to all.  As we read at - 700 - below:

     Go on   Go on.  such works as yours Nature & Providence 
   the Eternal Parents demand from their children how few 
   produce them in such perfection how Nature smiles on them. 
   how Providence rewards them.  How all your Brethren say,
   The sound of his harp & his flute heard from his secret 
   forest chears us to the labours of life. 

This file, the electronic Erdman (eE), makes a fitting new form
for a work which began over thirty years ago in the preparation
of a text for the printed Concordance to the poetry and prose
of William Blake and which now will serve as the basis for an
even more useful electronic version.

For assistance with this digital edition, I am grateful to the
University of Georgia Research Foundation and to University of
Georgia Department of English, especially its research assistants
William Cole, Margaret Crumpton, Patrick Darden, and Beth-Ann
Neighbors.  Alexander S. Gourlay gave extensive help and valuable
advice on several occasions.  Also offering assistance were Elisa
E. Beshero, Gregg A. Hecimovich, Thomas A. Vogler, and Paul
Yoder.  Thanks also to Mark Trevor Smith and Joseph Viscomi as
the first to spot needed corrections, and to Alexander Gourlay,
again, for many, many more.

This "beta" release of eE offers an ascii version of the 1988
Erdman text, with a line length of 65 characters.  The commentary
and most references to it are not included.  Line numbers and
headers have been deleted, and the superscript placement of
letters and numbers is not noted, but italics are indicated with
the markup tags .  Textual notes are indicated by a
lower-case "t" in the right margin or, rarely, in a tag (<t>) in
the midst of prose (the notes will be linked to the text in a
later release).  Longer passages of writing not by Blake (as in
the extracts which supply context for the marginalia and some of
the  textual notes) are set off by the tags <!WB></!WB>.  The
Erdman page numbers are at the bottom of each page of text,
surrounded by hyphen and space (- xxx -).  A very few
typographical errors in the printed text have been silently
corrected, and soft hyphenations have been eliminated.

Presently in preparation are an SGML version of this file, under
the auspices of the Blake Archive, and an online concordance.

Corrections, suggestions, and comments are most welcome.

Nelson Hilton
3 September 1996

Digital Blake Text Project
blaketxt@english.uga.edu

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