这部经典研究重新塑造了我们对这位艺术家成就的理解，揭示了布莱克远不止是一个善于创新的社会激进主义者。Kathleen Raine详细介绍了神秘主义、炼金术和诺斯替哲学对布莱克艺术的丰富影响。她解读了他的绘画和版画中所表达的复杂而深刻的象征主义，并描述了他对但丁、弥尔顿和《圣经》的解读所产生的强大影响。

Revealing Blake to be far more than a revolutionary social radical, this classic study reshapes our understanding of the artist’s achievement. Kathleen Raine details the enriching effect of mystical, alchemical and gnostic philosophy on Blake’s art. She unravels the complex, deeply felt symbolism expressed in his paintings and prints, and describes the powerful impact of his reading of Dante, Milton and the Bible.

Raine’s compelling text guides the reader through the life and thought of this extraordinary artist. Fully alive to the uniqueness of Blake’s art – which has ‘a reality, a coherence, a climate’ all its own – she introduces famous work such as Jerusalem, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Four Zoas and The Book of Job, relating them to Blake’s world view and explaining their prophetic qualities, their fierce energy, and their central place in British Romantic art.