Blake and the New Age (Routledge Revivals)
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...
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...
