Story Forty-Four: Songs of Bibliographic Innocence and Experience

Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

November 28^th is the 267^th birthday of the poet William Blake. Professor Wayne C. Ripley (English) is the bibliographer for The William Blake Archive. Thanks in part to his research, some of the books on WSU’s retention list are studies of Blake. 

Makdisi, Saree. Reading William Blake. Cambridge University Press, 2015.