This collection of critical essays on William Blake covers a wide range to include Marxist, new historicist, feminist and psychological approaches. Between them, the essays explore the most significant areas and moments of his career as poet and also print maker, illustrator and visionary artist. They explore the range of his poems from the early lyrics to the later epic poems and place Blake’s work in the wider context of English culture, especially the resurgence of dissent in the later 18th-century.