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BLAKE AND THE NEW AGE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS) IBD

KATHLEEN RAINE
ROUTLEDGE
11 / 2012
9780415678254
Inglés

Sinopsis

First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen RaineâÇÖs seminal study of William Blake -áEnglandâÇÖs 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 âÇÖmental things are alone realâÇÖ, 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 BlakeâÇÖs thought. We are ready to acknowledge that in attacking âÇÖthe sickness of AlbionâÇÖ 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 BlakeâÇÖs sources, presents him as a lonely powerful genius who stands within the spiritual tradition of Sophia Perennis, âÇÖthe Everlasting GospelâÇÖ. From the standpoint of this great human Norm, our immediate past described by W.B. Yeats as âÇÖthe three provincial centuriesâÇÖ, 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.