The Valley of Vision: Blake as Prophet and Revolutionary

The author of this important contribution to the study of Blake was tragically drowned in a sailing accident when he had almost completed it in manuscript. His was a critical mind of singular erudition and power. As is abundantly evidenced in these chapters which Northrop Frye has prepared for publication. Fisher had made a careful study of Oriental philosophy and of Plato and the Neo—Platonists and this background enabled him to make an original and fruitful analysis of his central interes...