*This test will serve to assess network stability prior to the official launch of the service. Please download the open beta game data in advance. The “Limited Time Open Beta: Destroy the Server!” event will be held in anticipation of the official release of service. Higgs does this admirably, by exploring what we know about the mind while maintaining, for our secular times, the sacred quality of Blake's attention."- "The Spectator" -This text refers to the hardcover edition.Now recruiting participants for the limited time open beta! We cannot understand Blake without understanding what he meant by imagination or taking seriously his visions. It was fun to witness Higgs's cogs turning, to hear his thoughts ricocheting against the walls of his internal archive of affinities, allusions and absorptions."- "The New York Times Book Review" "Laudable. This rewarding biography suggests that Blake would have appreciated Walt Whitman's long, lapping lines of poetry, agreed with Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas concerning self-reliance and individualism, and championed free verse."- "The Washington Examiner" "Higgs handles the complexities of Blake, particularly the later Blake, with adroit confidence, and in doing so he offers a crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction."- "The Times Literary Supplement" "Higgs's is a systematizing imagination, able to harness disparate elements and find the patterns that animate them."- "The Financial Times" "Higgs's writing is consistently clear and confident.rightly and persuasively emphasizing the primacy and power of the imagination in Blake's work.
One of the best Blake explainer books I've read."- "BoingBoing" "Higgs displays Blake's brilliance, noting the way his thought dovetailed with psychology, neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and chaos theory. You start to think: 'Oh my God, that artist has been somewhere in my consciousness for the whole of my life, but I know absolutely nothing about them.' There's a whole world just on my doorstep that I didn't realize existed."- "Simon Russell Beale, The Observer (London)" "For a thought-provoking and very accessible introduction to Blake, his work, and the complex mytho-poetic cosmology that he created, I can't recommend John Higgs' recent William Blake Vs the World highly enough. An appreciative, well-informed portrait."- "Kirkus Reviews" "Absolutely wonderful! This book managed to make Blake's mind and mythology understandable to me at last-for that I am truly grateful."-Terry Gilliam "Blake is a complete mystery to me, so I'm loving this book. Besides offering perceptive close analyses of Blake's work (including the art that illustrates this volume), Higgs locates him within the turbulent political and religious contexts of his times. Fascinating."- "The Times (London)" "A journey into the iconic poet's sensuous, idiosyncratic mythology. Before long you will find you are examining yourself as much as you are examining Blake. Higgs's prose has a diamond-hard clarity. Conventional expectations are ripped to shreds.
Praise for William Blake vs the World : "A glittering stream of revelatory light. Looking at these touchstones in this new context will forever change how you see the Beatles, the James Bond films and six decades of British culture. Told over a period of sixty dramatic years, this is an account of how two outsized cultural monsters continue to define our aspirations and fantasies and the future we are building. It explains why James Bond hated the Beatles, why Paul McCartney wanted to be Bond and why it was Ringo who won the heart of a Bond Girl in the end. LOVE AND LET DIE is the story of a clash between working-class liberation and establishment control, and how it exploded on the global stage. Bond and the Beatles present us with opposing values, visions of Britain and ideas about male identity. For Britain to produce two on the same windy October afternoon is unprecedented.
Most countries can only dream of a cultural export becoming a worldwide phenomenon on this scale. Dr No, the first Bond film, and 'Love Me Do', the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day - Friday, 5 October 1962. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been.
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