This volume offers an extended analysis of what writing meant to Blake as a thematic, formal, and theoretical construct. Arguing that writing, both as a thematic concern and a physical action, forms a site of contention for the representation of and resistance to signification, this study yokes two dominant contraries in Blake criticism: the emphasis on the material aspect of BlakeOs work and the practical matters of textual production familiar from the work of Joseph Viscomi, and the post-structuralist approach to Blake suggested in the work of critics such as Peter Otto and Donald Ault.