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William Blake vs the World
John Higgs
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'Fascinating' The Times
'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman
'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times
'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland
'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary Supplement
Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work - and, crucially, his mind. Taking the reader on wild detours into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into context and shows us how Blake can help us better understand ourselves.
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Lets in a glittering stream of revelatory light . . . Higgs's prose has a diamond-hard clarity. Before long you will find you are examining yourself as much as you are examining Blake . . . Fascinating - THE TIMESRich, complex and original, Higgs takes us to places that even Blake himself might have found surprisingLaudable . . . We cannot understand Blake without understanding what he meant by imagination or taking seriously his visions. Higgs does this admirably, by exploring what we know about the mind while maintaining, for our secular times, the sacred quality of Blake's attention - SPECTATORAbsolutely wonderful! This book managed to make Blake's mind and mythology understandable to me at last - for that I am truly grateful
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