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This is the first full length, annotated and referenced biography of George William Russell, better known by his pen-name - A E. 'That myriad minded man' as Archbishop Gregg called him, was a mystic, visionary, poet, artist, pacifist and patriot - aspects balanced by (as with most true mystics) his practical views as an economist and journalist. He was an ardent supporter and organiser of Sir Horace Plunkett's Irish Agricultural Organisation...

The writings of William Blake were not understood by his contemporaries or the Victorians, and it was only in 1910, with the publication of Joseph Wicksteed's Blake's Vision of the Book of Job, that the long process of comprehending Blake's works seriously began.