Blake and TraditionBlake and Tradition is an investigation of the sources of Blake's knowledge of the Neoplatonic and Hermetic tradition and allied currents of thought. The volumes contain what was then new information on Blake's vast fund of exact knowledge in these fields, and Kathleen Raine interprets his works in the light of the ideas that originally inspired and informed them. The core of this important work of scholarship formed the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts in 1962 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The expanded, two-volume work was originally published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1969. |
Contents
The Demon | 1 |
Tiriel | 5 |
Governor of the Unwilling | 18 |
The Children ofUrizen | 19 |
The Shadowy Female | 23 |
The Myth oftheKore | 63 |
Oothoon | 63 |
Blakes Cupid | 63 |
Emblems of Love | 74 |
Gates of Birth and Death | 93 |
Specters and Watchers | 107 |
The Zoas of Physical Life | 110 |
Enion | 110 |
13 | 110 |
The Zoas of Energy | 110 |
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Ahania Albion alchemical allthe andthe Arlington Court beautiful beneath Blake Blake’s poem body Boehme Boehme’s bright Bryant’s Mythology bythe called cave cherub Christian cloud dark daughter dead death delight descend describes Dionysus divine dreams earth emblem Enion Enitharmon eternal female figure flower Four Zoas fromthe Garden garments gate golden grave Heaven Hell Hermetica Heva human Ijim imagination immortal inhis inthe intothe isthe Jerusalem Leutha Luvah Lyca man’s marriage matter Milton mortal Mysteries myth nature Neoplatonic night Nymphs Oedipus ofthe onthe Oothoon Paracelsus Paradise passage Persephone philosophy Phorcys plate Platonic Plotinus poet Porphyry Porphyry’s Portland vase principle Proserpina Psyche Satan says serpent sexual shadow sleep Songs Songs of Experience soul soul’s Spectre spirit story Swedenborg Swedenborgian symbolic Taylor Tharmas thee Thel Thel’s theme Theotormon thesoul things thou Tiriel tothe tradition Urizen Urthona Vala Vaughan Virgin vision wanderings weeping Yeats Yeats’s Zazel