The William Blake Archive is a

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project started in 1994, a first version of the website was launched in 1996.{{cite journal, last1=Crawford, first1=Kendal, last2=Levy, first2=Michelle, journal=RIDE: A Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources, date = February 2017, issue = 5, title = The William Blake Archive, doi = 10.18716/ride.a.5.5 The project is sponsored by the

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.{{Cite web, url = http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/site.info.html, publisher = The William Blake Archive, title = The William Blake Archive Site Info, access-date = March 19, 2013, date = June 14, 2011 Inspired by the Rossetti Archive, the archive provides digital reproductions of the various works of

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...

, a prominent Romantic-period poet, artist, and engraver, alongside annotation, commentary and scholarly materials related to Blake.{{cite journal, title = Behind the Scenes at the William Blake Archive: Collaboration Takes More Than E-mail , last = Eaves, first = Morris, volume = 3, issue = 2 , date = December 1997, journal = Journal of Electronic Publishing, doi = 10.3998/3336451.0003.202, doi-access = free When publishing his poetry, William Blake would create print block illustrations for his book, print his books in black and white and then hand paint the illustrations within the prints. Furthermore, many of his works underwent multiple editions of printing, each with unique variations in the prints used to illustrate the poems and the poems themselves. Because of this complex process and the quality of his art, his art and poetry has been highly sought by collectors and scholars. The archive, as a

project, provides high quality digital copies of the facsimiles, providing scholars and students an opportunity to see the complexity of his published works often not available by viewing the scholarly print editions.{{Cite web, title = Using the William Blake Archive in Teaching Poetry, first =Josephine A. , last = McQuail, work = "World Wide Poetry on the Web" a MLA Poetry Division Panel, url = http://epc.buffalo.edu/conferences/00/mla/web.html, publisher = The Electronic Poetry Center at The University of Buffalo, access-date = March 16, 2013{{cite journal , journal = Computers and the Humanities, date = February 2002, volume = 36, issue = 1, pages =27–48, title = Digital Facsimiles: Reading the William Blake Archive, first =Joseph , last =Viscomi, doi = 10.1023/A:1013163229994, s2cid = 42669262 The archive has been peer reviewed by the Modern Language Association in 2005 and the Multimedia Educational Tools for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) process in 2010.{{cite web, url = http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewCompositeReview.htm?id=502599, title = Peer Review:The William Blake Archive, date = Nov 25, 2010, author = English Editorial Board, access-date = March 10, 2015 MERLOT highly recommended the use of the tool for teaching, praising the access to primary sources it provides; however, they also noted the need for educators to create instructional materials on how to use the site and the ease by which someone could get lost. Scholars have also written a number of educational case studies on how to use the archive.See for example Josephine A. McQuail
Using the William Blake Archive in Teaching Poetry
from MLA 2000 in Washington, D.C. or Daniel Cook
Teaching Romanticism VI: William Blake
on the ''Romantic Textualities'' blog.

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