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‘Fascinating’ The Times
‘Blakeian in its singularity’ New Statesman
‘A wonderful adventure’ Irish Times
‘Rich, complex and original’ Tom Holland
‘A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction’ Times Literary Supplement
Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem ‘Jerusalem’, William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake’s life and work – and, crucially, his mind. Taking the reader on wild detours into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into context and shows us how Blake can help us better understand ourselves.
Comic Poems 
Just Like Brothers 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems 
Pleased to See Me 
Reading George Szirtes 
Steep Tea 
A Monkey At the Window 
This Is Yarrow 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Being Alive 
Book of Mercy 
Song of Kieu: A New Lament Nguyen Du 
The Skies Above My Eyes 
Then What 
Counting Backwards 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
Dog Poems 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt 
Bridge 116 
Meanwhile, Trees 
101 Poems About Childhood 
The Claims Office 
Isn't Forever 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
The Moon Before Morning 
The Handle of the Door