Blake and Antiquity / / Kathleen Raine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Raine, Kathleen,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (182 p.) :; 91 b/w illus.

The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New AgeWilliam 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts -- Contents -- Introduction -- List of Illustrations -- The Cave of the Nymphs -- The Myth of Psyche -- The Myth of the Kore or Persephone -- The Myth of the Great Year -- The Nether-World of Alchemy -- Prophet against Science -- Select Bibliography -- Illustrations