Blake and Tradition

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'In every word of her delicate lyrical poetry, every line of her vivid, distinguished prose (including the celebrated candor of her three volumes of autobiography) Kathleen Raine has given unique expression to her belief in the value and meaning of man's 'inner journey' - her own included. This interior journey is, in her view, the one true source of mankind's greatest imaginative achievements. It is her own mystical poetic empathy that she has drawn most deeply in her illuminating studies of such poets as Blake, Yeats, Dante, Coleridge, St. John Perse, as also - outside poetry - in what she has written of Neoplatonism, Surrealism, Carl Jung and the Jungians.' - Nancy Wilson Ross -