William Blake and Religion

<p> Over the last ten years the field of Blake studies has profited from new discoveries about Blake's life and work. This book examines the effect that Blake's mother's recently discovered Moravianism has had on our understanding of his poetry and gives special attention to Moravianism and Swedenborgianism and their relation to his sexual politics. This is accomplished by a close reading of Blake's poetry which examines in detail the subjects of religion sex and the attempted colonization of Africa by a Swedenborgian utopian group.</p>