TY - BOOK AU - Raine,Kathleen TI - Blake and Antiquity T2 - The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts SN - 9780691252117 U1 - 821/.7 PY - 2023///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - ART / History / Romanticism KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691252117?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691252117 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691252117/original ER -