CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Working Artist

2. How Should We Understand Blake’s Symbols?

3. Innocence

4. Experience

5. Revolution

6. Atoms and Visionary Insight

7. “The Gate Is Open”

8. Understanding Blake’s Myth

9. The Zoas and Ourselves

10. The Prophetic Call

11. Breakthrough to Apocalypse

12. “The Torments of Love and Jealousy”

13. The Female Will

14. Wrestling with God

15. The Traveler in the Evening

Color Plates

Chronology

List of Short Titles

Notes

Illustration Credits

Index