Witness Against the Beast

Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law is a 1993 book by the British historian E. P. Thompson in which Thompson contextualizes the work of the otherwise enigmatic poet and painter William Blake. The last book that Thompson would write, it was published posthumously. The book attempts to frame some of Blake's ideas in the traditions of the culture of religious dissent in England.

Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law
Cover of the paperback edition, released in Fall 1994
AuthorE. P. Thompson
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary criticism
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date
1993
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages284
ISBN0-521-46977-5
OCLC32368799

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