"Since he began publishing essays, reviews, and books about Blake's composite visual and verbal art in 1960, John E. Grant has widely and deeply influenced the field of Blake studies, exhorting scholars and students to rethink old assumptions and insisting that those considering the words must attend to the pictures and those studying the visual art must read with care both Blake's poetry and works he illustrated. Over the last four decades Grant has shown by example how subtle, learned, and inventive Blake scholarship can be."--BOOK JACKET.