Blake and the New Age (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1979, Dr Raine's pioneering study presents William Blake as a lonely powerful genius who stands within the spiritual tradition of Sophia Perennis, `the Everlasting Gospel¿. From the standpoint of this great human Norm, our immediate past described by W.B. Yeats as `the three provincial centuries¿, 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.