Prophetic legislation : William Blake and the visionary poetry of the law

This dissertation examines the meaning of law in Blake's work. I argue that Blake's poetry intersects with contemporaneous challenges to the traditional model of the ancient constitution, a debate which I present as a conflict between custom and code. Blake's support for the French Re...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mauger, Matthew
Published: Queen Mary, University of London 2005
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414707