''Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law'' is a 1993 book by the British historian
E. P. Thompson in which Thompson contextualizes the work of the otherwise enigmatic poet and painter
William Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...
. The last book that Thompson would write, it was published posthumously. The book attempts to frame some of Blake's ideas in the traditions of the culture of
religious dissent in England.
See also
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The Making of the English Working Class
''The Making of the English Working Class'' is a work of English social history written by E. P. Thompson, a New Left historian. It was first published in 1963 by Victor Gollancz Ltd, and republished in revised form in 1968 by Pelican, after ...
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References
*Leader, Zachary. (5 December 1993)
BOOK REVIEW / A meeting with the last of the Muggletonians: Witness against the beast: William Blake and the Moral Law – by E P Thompson, Cambridge pounds 17.95' The Independent. Retrieved 4 August 2009
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Holmes, Richard (12 May 1994)
Lord of Unreason' The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 4 August 2009
External links
Overview with excerpts from Google Books
Works about William Blake
1993 non-fiction books
Biographies about writers
Cambridge University Press books
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