Blake and Antiquity
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Blake and Antiquity
By (Author) Kathleen Raine
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th August 2023
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
821.7
Physical Properties
Paperback
184
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New Age
William Blake (17571827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking. Blake and Antiquity situates this brilliant and enigmatic artist within the Western esoteric canon, revealing his indebtedness to Neoplatonism, the Gnostics, alchemy, astrology, and the mystical Cabbala. In this book, Kathleen Raine demonstrates how Blake rejected conventional orthodoxy and went in search among the occult traditions of antiquity for symbols that might expand the minds awareness into a spiritual state where space, time, and even death are transcended.
Reviews
"For Kathleen Raine, Blake was an eighteenth-century herald of a change in thinking that only now is coming to fruition. . . . Blake and Antiquity is the work of a scholar who serves the lovers of literature." * MANAS *
Author Bio
Kathleen Raine (19082003) was a British poet, critic, and scholar, and a leading authority on William Blake. Her many books include Blake and Tradition; Golgonooza, City of Imagination: Last Studies in William Blake; and Autobiographies.
