1st Edition

Blake and the New Age (Routledge Revivals)

By Kathleen Raine Copyright 1979
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. England’s Prophet. 2. ‘Everything that lives is Holy’. 3. Blake’s Christianity. 4. Blake’s Last Judgement. 5. Taylor, Blake and the English Romantic Movement. 6. Blake, Wordsworth and Nature. 7. Innocence and Experience. 8. Berkeley, Blake and the New Age.

Biography

Kathleen Raine