Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law | |
Author: | E. P. Thompson |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Literary criticism |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Release Date: | 1993 |
Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages: | 284 |
Isbn: | 0-521-46977-5 |
Oclc: | 32368799 |
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. 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.