A study of William Blake Contents: Part One: The Argument The Case against Locke The Rising God Beyond Good and Evil A Literalist of the Imagination The Word within the Word Part Two: The Development of the Symbolism Tradition and Experiment The Thief of Fire The Refiner of Fire The Nightmare with her Ninefold Part Three: The Final Synthesis Comus Agonistes The City of God The Burden of the Valley of Vision