Why Mrs Blake Cried: William Blake and the Erotic Imagination
Marsha Keith Schuchard
ISBN: | 9780712620161 |
Publisher: | Century |
Published: | 2 March, 2006 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Why Mrs Blake Cried: William Blake and the Erotic Imagination
Marsha Keith Schuchard
While much has been written about the work of William Blake and some of the religious beliefs that influenced him, there is a secret history which, until now, has been kept deep beneath the surface in the mystical underground of England in the eighteenth century. Here, for the first time, leading Blake scholar Marsha Keith Schuchard reveals an altogether more intriguing and controversial picture of the poet and artist. The discovery of Blake family documents took Schuchard on a journey of detection that led her to a cast of radical characters including Cagliostro, Zinzendorf and the mystic Swedenborg, and to a world of waking visions, magical practises, sexual-spiritual experimentation, tantric sex and free love. WHY MRS BLAKE CRIED offers a new insight into the work of Blake and takes us on an extraordinary journey through secret societies and ancient rituals.
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