William Blake (Annotated)

G.K. Chesterton's William Blake is a vivid critical biography that approaches Blake not merely as poet and engraver, but as visionary, rebel, and religious imagination at war with the rationalism of his age. Written in Chesterton's paradoxical, aphoristic prose, the book situates Blake within Romanticism while stressing his singularity: his prophetic symbolism, childlike intensity, and fierce defe...