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Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law
Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law
Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law
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Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the “Antichrist” embodied by contemporary society—to “witness against the beast.”
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PublisherThe New Press
Release dateMay 23, 2017
ISBN9781620972144
Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law
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E.P. Thompson

E.P. Thompson (1924–1993) was a British historian, writer, socialist, and peace campaigner. He is most famous for his work on the British radical movements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, as well as influential biographies of William Morris and William Blake. An ardent left-wing socialist critic of the Labour governments of 1964–70 and 1974–79 and a historian in the Marxist tradition, Thompson was an active figure in ending the Cold War.

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