1. The numbering of Albert S. Roe, Blake’s Illustrations to the Divine Comedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1953), referred to in the text as Roe, followed by page-number.
2. See also Milton S. Klonsky, Blake’s Dante (New York: Harmony Books 1980), and Butlin, vol. 2, pp. 554–94.
3. For criticism: Rodney M. Baine, ‘Beatrice’s Dante in a Different Light’, Dante Studies 105 (1987), 113–36, which contests the view that Beatrice is to be seen as the Female Will (the essay concentrates entirely on the last two cantiche, and has nothing to say about Inferno);
4. David Fuller, ‘Blake and Dante’, Art History 11 (1988), 349–73,
5. which argues against Roe; Jeanne Moskal, ‘Blake, Dante and “Whatever Book is for Vengeance”’ , Philological Quarterly 70 (1991), 317–35.