Peter Otto. Blake's Critique of Transcendence: Love, Jealousy, And the Sublime in the Four Zoas (Book Review‪)‬

Peter Otto. Blake's Critique of Transcendence: Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 365, illus. $85.00. About 1794, the bookseller Richard Edwards commissioned William Blake to make designs for an edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts. Blake worked on this until W97, producing 537 watercolor drawings. Edwards published the first part of the text with forty-three Blake engravings in 1797. It was a commercial failure. Perhaps in response, and over the following years, Blake began to create the first of his great visionary epics, The Four Zoas.