Blake Resource at the University of Georgia

Romantic Studies has been at the forefront of the emerging field known as "digital humanities," and one of the early Romanticist experimenters teaches at the University of Georgia.  In the nineties, he and his students composed histories of the criticism of the poems in Songs of Innocence and Experience (in some cases these histories reach back to the nineteenth century, others are more twentieth-century-centric).

For example, you can read the discussion of "The Tyger" here: http://www.english.uga.edu/wblake/SONGS/42/42bib.html

The easiest way to see the critical history of an individual poem is to type the following key words into a search engine: "blake [poem's title] uga."  You CAN navigate the archive by fiddling with the URL, but you're like to find what you are looking for faster by using a search engine.

This will likely be an aid for those of you who want to write about Blake for the longer paper at the semester's end (which will require you to dig into the criticism).  It's still likely to fascinate those who want to get a sense of what professional critics make of Blake's poems.