"An Island in the Moon"

[1784] Blake, William (1757-1827). “An Island in the Moon.” Blake. Complete Writings With Variant Readings. Ed. Geoffrey Keynes (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), 44-63 with the date as circa 1784-86; and in The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Newly rev. ed. Ed. David V. Erdman, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 449-65, with Textual Notes (849-50. Also pub. as An Island in the Moon. A Facsimile of the Manuscript Introduced, Transcribed, and Annotated by Michael Phillips with a Preface by Haven O’More. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press in association with Institute of Traditional Science, 1987. A different version Ed. and Decorated by Gavin O’Keefe. [U.S.] The Purple Mouth Press, 1998. A 1787 ms. was published as An Island in the Moon. Illus. Nicholas Parry. Market Drayton, Eng.: Tern Press, 2007. O, VSL, VUW

A satire on contemporary events, manners, and people using an imaginary society on the moon.