Witness Against the Beast

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| name = Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law

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| image = Witness against the beast blake.jpg

| caption = Cover of the paperback edition, released in Fall 1994

| author = E. P. Thompson

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| genre = Literary criticism

| publisher = Cambridge University Press

| release_date = 1993

| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

| pages = 284

| isbn = 0-521-46977-5

| oclc = 32368799

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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.

See also

References

  • Leader, Zachary. (5 December 1993) [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/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-1795-1465613.html 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
  • Holmes, Richard (12 May 1994) [https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/05/12/lord-of-unreason/ Lord of Unreason] The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 4 August 2009