Product Description: Kathleen Raine wrote: 'When I first met Jean Mambrino he was an ardent young novice about to be ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus. Now in his eighties he has emerged from a tempestuous life no longer concerned with church matters into an old age full of love and wisdom...read more

Product Description: Blake was a visionary like no other. To some, like William Wordsworth, the only explanation for the remarkable spiritual world Blake witnessed and brought to life in his books was 'insane genius'. Although such a view persisted well into the twentieth century, this is the pivotal work which challenged that perspective and changed forever our understanding of William Blake's genius, placing him in the esoteric tradition...read more

Product Description: Replacement for Volume One in the two-volume set, Blake and Tradition. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Known for writing mystical nature poetry immersed in the quiet air of solitude and imgination, Kathleen Raine offers a new collection--a celebration of the miracles of nature and mankind's lace among them. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection of essays highlights the influence of Swedish visionary Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) on art, spirituality, and culture. Opening with an essay by Spanish-language writer and metaphysician Jorge Luis Borges, from which the collection draws its name, the volume includes a description of Swedenborg's influence on Fyodor Dosteovsky by Czleslaw Mloscz; a look at Swedenborg from a mystical perspective from Wilson Van Dusen; the transcendentalist connection with Ralph Waldo Emerson in an essay by Eugene Taylor; and Buddhist scholar D...read more

Product Description: David Jones was a British painter, engraver and writer, who is best known for his work as a watercolourist. This book provides a broad account of David Jones’s pictorial output, in the absence of any existing general introduction to the artist’s work...read more

Product Description: tells the story of a remarkable and determined woman from her childhood in a remote hamlet during the First World War to her academic career at Cambridge and her failed marriages. It is ultimately the story of a woman who rejected science for poetry, mysticism and Neoplatonist philosophy and so came to find her own true tradition...read more

Product Description: The seven studies that comprise this book are the culmination of more than forty years of research into the meaning of Blake's symbolic themes by a scholar-poet who is internationally recognized as one of Blake's most profound interpreters...read more

Product Description: The eminent poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, leading exponent of "the learning of the imagination," brings together all her essays on Yeats (some never before printed) covering many aspects of the traditions and influences that informed his great poetry...read more

In the final volume of her autobiography, the poet describes her first visit to India, interweaving travel narrative and personal recollection with reflections on the spiritual life of the Indian people

Product Description: Book by Raine, Kathleen

Product Description: In these poems, the poet's imaginative vision comes full circle. The interpenetration of the world of nature and the human world is seen with the naked wonder of the child, but bearing the weight of human experience through a distillation of the poet's thought and sensibility...read more

Product Description: a book of poetry from days gone by!

Product Description: Jeremy Reed’s first novel is a powerfully evocative and beautifully written book that takes one on a young man’s journey to the bottom of the night. It is also, as Kathleen Raine has noted in her introduction, the novel of a poet, full of imaginative compassion for the night lost and a testament to poetic conviction, the word that is delivered from darkness...read more

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

Studies the series of twenty-two engravings Blake made to illustrate the Book of Job and discusses Blake's interpretation of the Scriptures

Product Description: 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, truer life that lies somewhere out there behind and beyond our daily existence"" - Basil Burwell, The Republican Journal...read more

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