This volume on Blake follows the writer's life and combines biography and critical analysis. Covering Blake's early career, his major works and his work as a visual artist, this new study will be a must for all Blake scholars and enthusiasts. Recent discoveries concerning Blake's forebears and their religion make this new study additionally timely.

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John Beer is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse. His work on Romanticism includes Coleridge the Visionary, Coleridge's Poetic Intelligence, Blake's Humanism, Blake's Visionary Universe, Wordsworth and the Human Heart, Wordsworth in Time, Questioning Romanticism (ed.), Romantic Influences and Providence and Love. He has edited Coleridge's Poems for Everyman's Library, his Aids to Reflection for the Collected Works and is General Editor of the series Coleridge's Writings.

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List of Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Rescuing the Human Spirit Traces of Tradition? Through Satire to Innocence Love, Marriage and Sexual Lore Finding a Voice for Experience The Challenge of Energy Thinking Allegorically, Imagining Symbolically 'Vala' and the Fate of Narrative 'A Slumber on the Banks of the Ocean' Fragmentary Modes of Epic Years of Resentment, Hints of Paradox A Persisting Visionary Prophetic Afterlife Notes Select Bibliography Index