ABSTRACT
This chapter draws the theoretical implications regarding author’s intention and reader’s response. The first raises the question: why would Blake eschew the conventional myth in favor of one alien to the vast majority of his readers? And the second: why should Blake’s audience, which has developed its own methodology for interpreting Blake, care about his intention? The answer to both questions is truth. Blake made the transition to the esoteric mode of thought because he believed that through it, he could best articulate the plenitude of his vision. The resulting art, in turn, provides the vehicle through which his audience can, should they choose, develop their own visionary faculties.
