Product Description: At a time when poetry has little regard for anything beyond the commonplace realities of everyday perception and sentiment, these studies propose a restoration of balance as between outer and inner worlds. For too long, in the wake of our attempt at a rational, scientific civilization, it has been readily assumed that the centre of gravity of reality and truth falls within the realm of the physical world...read more

Product Description: This striking title proposes a striking idea: To be fully human means to have an inclination toward art. Pointing the way to art as a primary means through which we enter into a relationship with the spiritual nature of reality, this anthology by many of the most prominent philosophers and artists of our time reconnects us to the fundamental truths which give value to our thoughts and actions, as well as to art...read more

Product Description: As the title suggests, we are here addressing the most fundamental questions: Who is man? What is art? What is the bond that unites man, nature and art? The argument at the heart of this book is that what should be common to all men and women-a natural affinity with the sacred that holds out the promise of spiritual experience in everyday life- is in fact made all but impossible by the very nature of modern society...read more

Product Description: One of today's leading composers reflects on the relationship of music to the spiritual dilemmas of our timeIn the 1960s, John Tavener's music appeared on the Beatles' Apple label. "The Protecting Veil"--one of the bestselling classical recordings of all time--made him a household name in the eighties, and his "Song for Athene" was heard worldwide when it was played at Princess Diana's funeral in 1997...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays by the distinguished poet and scholar, Kathleen Raine, examine poetic symbolism, William Blake's philosophy, the paintings of Cecil Collins, and other literary and artistic subjects