Entering into discourses about one of the most elusive writers of the past three hundred years does not come without it’s steep precipices: Blakean scholars are passionate, and each has their own interpretation. But it is precisely this unclear and mystified nature of Blake’s writing that lends him the title of “poet-artist-prophet” – where each reader must interpret the unfixable symbols into their own schemas.
It is with this awareness and trepidation, then, that I enter into writing my dissertation on William Blake’s metaphysics, his uncanny connections to Buddhist philosophy, and ultimately, analyse the evidence drawing towards his conclusion that “all religions are One.”
William Blake 