Blake and Antiquity

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Blake and Antiquity

History of art Individual artists, art monographs Individual photographers Individual architects and architectural firms Biography: general Biography: writers Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Author: Kathleen Raine

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Collection: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Language: English

Published by: Princeton University Press

Published on: 17th October 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9780691252117


William Blake as prophet of the New Age

The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New Age

William Blake (1757–1827) 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, and astrology. 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 mind’s awareness into a spiritual state where space, time, and even death are transcended.

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