In this deluxe, 27-page book of pictures and prose, Blake ... Minster William Pitt during his “reign of terror” in the mid 1790s, were the two “Gagging Acts” (1795). The first allowed ...

However, many of his peers and supporters were baffled by such works as The First Book of Urizen (1794), Europe ... uring one of their sessions Varley asked Blake to look out for the spirit of William ...

William Blake vs. the World, by John Higgs, Pegasus, 390 pp, $28.95 John Higgs’s latest book, William Blake vs ... divinity of reason and law called Urizen. Higgs also questions Blake’s ...

Works by the poet, painter and engraver William Blake (1757-1827), the most dazzling ... Flames of Furious Desires from the First Book of Urizen; Urizen, a creature of Blake’s invention, the law-maker ...

A crackling collection of experimental prints by William Blake resurrects the English ... Albion (George III’s England, roughly) and Urizen (Blake’s deity of cold, unfeeling logic).