David Bindman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at UCL and is a leading expert on Blake.

Esther Chadwick is Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld Institute and a specialist in eighteenth-century British art.

Directors' ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsEditorial Note

Introduction: Blake, Runge and Visionary Art in Europe c.1800 - Esther Chadwick

Blake, Time and the Present Moment - Sarah Haggarty
- Blake and his Artist Contemporaries

PART I: The Past: Antiquity and the Gothic
Learning From the Past - John Flaxman
- Blake and Fuseli
- Blake and Dante
- Classics vs Gothic

PART II: The Present: Europe in Flames
Blake's Continental Prophecies: Apocalypse and Revolution - David Bindman
- Mind Forg'd Manacles: Slavery and Freedom
- French Revolution and Apocalypse
- The World as Prison
- Images of Redemption

PART III: The Future: Spiritual Renewal
Runge's Times - Joseph Leo Koerner

'Michael Angelo could not have done better': Dionysius Andreas Freher and the Visual Transmission of German Mysticism in Eighteenth-Century England - Cecilia Muratori

Henry Crabb Robinson, William Blake, and Anglo-German Cultural Relations - James Vigus
- Blake's New Religious Style
- Jacob Böhme
- Philipp Otto Runge: Times of Day

Romantic Nationalism - William Vaughan
- Romantic Nationalism

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