Starting with William Blake's lost painting The Ancient Britons,
this book shows how the visionary artist and poet reworked the
Matter of Britain - the corpus of legends presenting an alternative
history of Britain - into his own mythology. He thus adds to a
tradition of Arthurian epic begun by Layamon in the 13th century
and continued by Edmund Spenser in the 16th, in which a
Romano-Celtic warlord becomes an icon of the English imagination.
This book shows how Britain became the promised land of a pagan
goddess where mythical events are as important as those of history,
and how the figure of Arthur is transformed into a British Messiah
whose Christian realm is in continuous interaction with the
Otherworld of Faerie, an imagined place between the spiritual and
the earthly. Arthur as perceived through Blake's vision is the
earthly embodiment of the fallen Albion; this exploration of the
mythic underpinnings of the English sense of nationhood reveals an
imaginative consciousness that links us to "human existence itself.
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