William Blake: Religion and Psychology

This is not about Catherine, Blake's wife, with whom he lived in happy conjugal relationship for 40 years (her only complaint was that h...

It was early morning; I sat in the breakfast room reading the paper. Then I turned to Kathleen Raines' Blake and Antiquity . It led to...

As committed a Christian as Blake was, he still receives little or no coinage in conventional religious circles. The reasons are rather obv...

Learning Blake I got into Blake re 1978 and published my Blake book five years later.

Ezekiel talked to Blake about "the desire of raising other men to the perception of the Infinite" (MHH) . Here's a modern eq...

This was central to Blake's evolving theology. It came to him at 42 and delivered him from his need to flog Old Nobodaddy ; he had expe...

(Look also at Blake's Bible.) If you think the Bible is inerrant, and that every word has one and only one meaning, then you don't...

Records show a strange congruence between the development and psyche of these two men: Blake saw the face of God in his window at four. J...

“Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.”, from the Marriage of Heaven and Hell Here it is: the first blog (from blogger.c...

This is a repost of an earlier post intended to help Blake students get started: An anonymous reader has asked that we provide more informat...