Raine, Kathleen.

William Blake.

London: Longmans Green for the British Council and the National Book League, [1951].

8vo, 40 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Blake and four plates, illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers, very good.

§ First edition of this study. Bentley, Blake Books, 2491: “not remarkable for accuracy.” Kathleen Raine (1908-2003), was a mystical poet, scholar, and critic of Yeats, Coleridge, and Blake. "A visionary poet whose work probed the intersection of science and mysticism, Raine bridged elements of Jungian psychology and neo-Platonism in her work." (Poetry Foundation). Item #100057

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