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Blake and the New Age (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
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Blake and the New Age (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen
Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England's only prophet. He
challenged with extraordinary vigour the premises which now
underline much of Western civilization, hitting hard at the ideas
of a naive materialist philosophy which, even in his own day, was
already eating at the roots of English national life. In his
insistence that 'mental things are alone real', Blake was ahead of
his time. Materialist views are now challenged from various
quarters; the depth psychologies of Freud and Jung, the study of
Far Easter religion and philosophy, the reappraisal of myth and
folk lore, the wealth of psychical research have all prepared the
way for an understanding of Blake's thought. We are ready to
acknowledge that in attacking 'the sickness of Albion' Blake
penetrated to the inner worlds of man and explored them in a way
that is quite unique. Dr Raine, who has made a long study of
Blake's sources, presents him as a lonely powerful genius who
stands within the spiritual tradition of Sophia Perennis, 'the
Everlasting Gospel'. From the standpoint of this great human Norm,
our immediate past described by W.B. Yeats as 'the three provincial
centuries', is a tragic deviation; catastrophic, as Blake believed,
in its spiritual and material consequences. Only now do we possess
the necessary knowledge to understand William Blake and the
ever-growing number of people who turn to him surely justifies his
faith in the eternal truths he strove to communicate.
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