Witness Against the Beast

William Blake and the Moral Law

E.P. Thompson

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A brilliant interdisciplinary re-examination of Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background by the renowned historian and critic.
The union of knowledge with imagination and conviction is the mark of this book, as it seems to have been of Thompson's life. The book also communicates the excitement of the scholar-explorer in his quest. . . A splendid conclusion to a life of great scholarship. 
—New York Times Book Review
Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E. P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the "Antichrist" embodied by contemporary society—to "witness against the beast."

E.P. Thompson (1924-1993) was one of England's foremost historians and social critics.  He was the author of The Making of the English Working Class, Customs in Common, Making History, and many other works.
Literary Criticism
Fall 1994
paperback
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 256 pages
978-1-56584-099-7

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