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“This book by Barfield, This Ever Diverse Pair, frequently mentions Blake. In fact, in the denouement of the book, one of the characters is offered a kind of prescription that involves reading William Blake. So it’s always intrigued me quite what Barfield saw in Blake. Apart from these references, I wasn’t clear on what Barfield loved about Blake until recently, when another Barfield scholar sent me an as-yet-unpublished paper by Barfield, explicitly on Blake and what Barfield felt in Blake’s work—a bringing back of an older consciousness into the present.” Read more...
The best books on William Blake
Mark Vernon, Biographer
