Converse in the Spirit: William Blake, Jacob Boehme, and the Creative Spirit

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From: German Quarterly
Date: 20050701
Author:Kirby, Bryan

Fischer, Kevin. Converse in the Spirit: William Blake, Jacob Boehme, and the Creative Spirit. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004. 258 pp. $48.50 hardcover.

This book is Kevin Fischer's contribution to an on-going inquiry of connections between Blake and Boehme already begun in earlier studies by, for instance, Kathleen Raine (in the 1970s) and Bryan Aubrey (in the 1980s). By bringing Boehme and Blake together again, Fischer wants his readers to "realize the value of studying such individuals in the light of one another" (11). With his prodigious knowledge of both men and ...

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