Blake and Conflict

Famously, Blake believed that "without contraries" there could be no "progression." Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts.

Famously, Blake believed that "without contraries" there could be no "progression." Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts.

SARAH HAGGARTY is Janice Scott Junior Research Fellow in English at University College, Oxford, UK.

JON MEE is Professor of Romanticism Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. His other works include Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s. He is currently a Philip J. Leverhulme Major Research Fellow working on the idea of conversation in the Romantic period.