William Blake: His Philosophy And Symbols
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Reviews
This is the most insightful and best means you could ever read to get into and really start to understand the poems and art of William Blake. Why this book is still not in print is beyond me. It was first written and published in I think 1924. Even though it was written over 80 years ago, it does not read like it is an ancient hard to digest read. Foster Damon was a great writer and his work reads as if it was written today and not so long ago. What's good about this book is that Damon breaks down each of Blake's work's and opens up the characters and symbolism. Instead of being put off by the sometimes overwhelming imagery Blake uses, Damon gives us the "End of a golden string", and with it one can start to understand and make sense of Blake and his work. Damon is not a dry bone Scholar or academic. He comes at Blake with an appreciation of Blake's otherworldliness and more hidden ideas. Damon had an interest in mysticism and was also a established poet in his day. He was also an academic at Brown University. So if anyone could gain insight into Blake he was the man.One idea that Damon prize's from Blake made me nearly fall of the chair when I read it. Not because it, these days, is so hidden or unknown, but this was written in 1924 when these things were not made so explicit. One only has to think of Aleister Crowley or Austin Osman Spare and how they hid in their works ideas and beliefs that in society would have invited great criticism and censor. Damon bravely links the idea of Blake's Mysticism and sexual occultism as being the leaping board to inspired states of mind from which Blake tapped into and created his great poetry and art. I found this book in a second hand book store. Reading this book along with Thames & Hudson's complete illuminated books on Blake and you will have opened the door to the world of Blake and his very Gnostic ideas and beliefs. This book is expensive and I think it should be republished. There is nothing better available to really get an in-depth understanding of Blake.
