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Kathleen Raine
An updated edition of a classic volume and thorough overview of William Blake’s life and work.
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In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine was uniquely placed to look back on more than six decades of her poetry and to decide the canon by which she wished…
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Well into the twentieth century the idea that madness was the only explanation for the remarkable spiritual world Blake captured in his books. This classic work was the first to…
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This is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen Raine’s seminal study of William Blake - England’s only prophet. He challenged with extraordinary vigour the premises which now underline much of…
A book of great beauty and charm…[Raine] has a profound, sometimes agonized understanding of what it means to be alive, to be old, to be aware always of that deeper…
Kathleen Raine was one of the most eminent literary figures of the twentieth century-as poet, scholar, and editor. During her long and distinguished career she knew many of the leading…
Golgonooza, City of Imagination includes seven studies representing the culmination of Raine’s forty years of research into the meaning and character of Blake’s symbolic themes.
The story of the life and work of the visionary poet and artist, William Blake.
The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New Age
William Blake (17571827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry…
Philippa Bernard
Tells the story of how the poet Kathleen Raine has developed from a small girl, who knew at the age of eight that she wanted only to write poetry, into…
In this vivid and engaging narrative of her travels the poet speaks of those human depths that are beyond all superficial divisions, invoking the timeless order that is the culture…
Brian Keeble
In her prolific work as a scholar and essayist-laying the laborious foundations, as she called it-Kathleen Raine spent little effort elucidating her meaning as a poet; but it becomes evident…
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There is no exaggeration in pointing out that these essays are addressed to the soul of the reader. They are not academic exercises in erudition as a contribution to ‘Eng…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
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Thomas Taylor
This volume makes available to the modern reader selected writings of Thomas Taylor, the eighteenth-century English Platonist. TO Taylor we are indebted for the first full translation into English of…
W. Y. Evans-Wentz
This classic on the subject is dedicated to two people who greatly influenced the author W.B. Yeats and AE, perhaps the greatest mystic and visionary of this century.
Honore de Balzac
Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in Parisian literary circles of the early nineteenth century.
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During the 1840s, a bourgeois Parisian family is brought to ruin by the machinations of an embittered spinster.
Madeleine L'Engle
‘An unusual and beautiful book,’ the first novel by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time explores the life of a young artist (Los Angeles Times).
At only ten…
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Kathleen T N Smith
"Standing on the edge of never, shaken by
the sight, I am here, but you can't see me
for the blackness of the night..."
Booming thunder and blades of slashing…
Kathleen M Campbell
The Air Force is currently developing imaging laser radar systems (ladar) for use on precision guided munitions and other imaging systems. Scientists at Eglin Air Force Base, in conjunction with…
