Why Mrs Blake Cried
Author | : Marsha Keith Schuchard |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781448139439 |
ISBN-13 | : 1448139430 |
Rating | : 4/5 (430 Downloads) |
Download or read book Why Mrs Blake Cried written by Marsha Keith Schuchard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the work of William Blake and some of the religious beliefs that influenced him, but 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, 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, sexual-spiritual experimentation, kabbalistic magic, 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.