More than 150 years after his death, William Blake (1757-1827) remains a
cryptic and controversial figure. Equally gifted as a poet and a
painter, he produced work that is as arresting for its beauty as for its
strangeness. With this fresh examination of Blake's unfolding career,
William Vaughan presents an artist with a radical and utterly individual
vision, who was deeply concerned with the social, religious, and
political issues of his age.