Table of Contents

Blake the bricoleur. "Every Honest Man is a Prophet" - popular enthusiasm and radical millenarianism; "Northern Antiquities" - bards, druids, and antique liberties; "Forms of Dark Delusion: - mythography and politics; Blake, the Bible, and its critics in the 1790s; conclusion - a radical without an audience?

Reviews

'Mee ... places Blake well and correctly ... Dangerous Enthusiasm will do much to take Blake out of the somewhat attentuated discourse of analytic academicism and to put him back in a credible place.' E. P. Thompson,
London Review of Books
`a general, incontestable conclusion that, whatever their personal relations, Blake's political opinions, expressed in both his writing and his engravings, were much more Paineite than has ever been previously appreciated. Here in these pages Paine grows in stature, with the eager Blake at his side ... splendid volume.'
Michael Foot, Hampstead & Highgate Express
'a book that is packed with truly absorbing material, all enormously helpful in an attempt to understand more fully Blake's participation in the discourses current in Britain's "radical underworld"'
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly