William Blake: Prophet of universal brotherhood (First edition)

William Blake, as Sir George Trevelyan remarks in his Foreword in this book, has been called the prophet of the New Age, and in this new study Bernard Nesfield-Cookson shows how closely Blake's philosophy, expressed in his poetry and prose, relates to the emerging vision of 'holism' in our own time.

Blake's work is analysed in detail to help the general reader as well as the student to understand the rick background of thought and imagery - ranging from Cabbala, the Bible and Neoplatonism to Boehme and Swedenborg - that lies behind William Blake the poet, prophet and thinker.

Through extensive quotation, Bernard Nesfield-Cookson offers a wealth of new and challenging insights into the spiritual vision of a man whose continuing relevance to central contemporary concerns is slowly being recognized.