Witness Against the Beast

William Blake and the Moral Law

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism
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Author: E. P. Thompson ISBN: 9781620972144
Publisher: The New Press Publication: May 23, 2017
Imprint: The New Press Language: English
Author: E. P. Thompson
ISBN: 9781620972144
Publisher: The New Press
Publication: May 23, 2017
Imprint: The New Press
Language: English

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.”

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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.”

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