Introduction: the impossible self -- Empiricism and despair -- Wordsworth, Plato, and Blake -- The four Zoas: transcendental remorse -- Milton: the guarded gates -- Jerusalem: the will to solitude
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"It has been clear form the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist, and in "William Blake on Self and Soul", Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of subjectivity."--[book jacket]