PositiveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)... [Higgs] handles the complexities of Blake, particularly the later Blake, with adroit confidence, and in doing so he offers a crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction ... What emerges from these vertiginously ahistorical perspectives is a penetrating account of a prismatically minded Blake: shine the light of quantum physics or neuroscience on him, and it is reflected back as a rainbow of possibilities ... This, then, is Blake for the 2020s, and inevitably references to popular culture abound...Higgs is at his best writing about Blake rather than Wordsworth or Coleridge, the Beatles or Bowie, and best of all writing about Blake’s writing. There is little on his artwork, and sadly the book has no colour plates.
