Course Description:  William Blake was one of the great British romantic poets, and a fine artist in the medium of engraving. He was also an important figure in the British radical egalitarian political tradition. The course will involve: appreciation and interpetation of selected poems; biographical roots of Blake’s thought; political history and philosophy and Blake’s place in it.

Location:  Harbor

Dates/Times:  Monday, January 8 - January 28

Instructor:  Bill Caspary & Jim Smith

Jim Smith is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Felician College, New Jersey. He formerly taught literature at Temple University, and wrote a dissertation on William Blake. In between these two professorships, he earned a PhD in psychology, and for many years he was director of the out-patient PTSD program at the Veterans Administration facility in Montrose, NY.

Bill Caspary continues to teach political theory, at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU. His specialty is participatory democracy and the thought from which it originated -- John Dewey and American Pragmatism.