Books written by Sheila A. Spector

  • Glorious Incomprehensible: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Language
    Glorious Incomprehensible: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Language

    Traces the evolution of hebraic etymologies and mystical grammars as indicators of a profound shift in Blake's subjective consciousness from the earliest prose tracts, worked on before 1790, to the last years of his life, when he was still ...

  • Wonders Divine: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth
    Wonders Divine: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Myth

    Explores Blake's esoteric and religious influences

  • The Evolution of Blake’s Myth
    The Evolution of Blake’s Myth

    The Wond'rous Art: William Blake and Writing. ... William Blake's Illustrations for Dante's “Divine Comedy”: A Study of the Engravings, Pencil Sketches and Watercolors. ... William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity.

  • Romanticism/Judaica: A Convergence of Cultures
    Romanticism/Judaica: A Convergence of Cultures

    On the long history of the complications of elegy, see the essays in Karen Weisman, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the ... and Transformation: The Englishing of Jewish Culture”), are particularly informative on the subject of translation ...

  • Byron and the Jews
    Byron and the Jews

    A useful appendix contains transcriptions of many of the texts discussed in this volume, as few of these Hebrew and Yiddish translations are readily available elsewhere.