Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law
Almost every page offers fresh evidence not merely of his vast overflowing erudition, but of his wit, his humanity, his soaring historical imagination.  --The GuardianThe union of knowledge with imagination and conviction is the mark of this book, as it seems to have been of Thompson's life. The book also communicates the excitement of the scholar-explorer in his quest. . . A splendid conclusion to a life of great scholarship.  --New York Times Book Review