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Tag Archives: Symbolism
The Faery Gates of Avalon by Gareth Knight
The Faery Gates of Avalon is the first of four books originally published by R.J. Stewart Books to be reissued imminently through Skylight Press. The other three to follow are The Little Book of the Great Enchantment by Steve Blamires, … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Arthuriad, Arthurian Tradition, Breton, Celtic, celtic myth and legend, chrétien de troyes, Chretian de Troyes, esoteric, Faery Lore, faery tradition, Fairy Tale, folklore, french manuscripts, Gareth Knight, Grail Romance, janet farrar, Knights of the Round Table, legent, Magic, mediaeval, Medieval History, mythology, Occult, R.J. Stewart, R.J. Stewart Books, ritual magic, Steve Blamires, Stewart Farrar, Symbolism, Troubadour, Trouvere, Welsh, Western Mysteries, western mystery traditions
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Kaleidoscopic Omniscience by Will Alexander
In the contemporary American poetry scene Will Alexander stands alone as a unique voice, regularly penning what fellow poet Brian Lucas recently described to me as “oracular, vatic, cosmically penetrating poetry.” Perhaps the most obvious categorisation is to place him … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Aime Cesaire, Albania, American Poetry, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, Asia, avant garde, Avant Garde Poetry, Bob Kaufman, Brian Lucas, Channelling, contemporary american poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Cosmology, Diary as Sin, Dictatorship, Dylan Thomas, Eliot Weinburger, enver hoxha, Enver Hxha, Experimental poetry, Haiti, Jonathan Skinner, Kaleidoscopic Omniscience, Language poetry, Literature, Los Angeles, Mark Scroggins, Octavio Paz, Philip Lamantia, poetry, Rimbaud, Surreal Poetry, Surrealism, Symbolism, Symbolist poetry, Tibet, Will Alexander, writing
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Magical Images and the Magical Imagination by Gareth Knight
In times past the knowledge and use of magical images was once a closely guarded secret stowed in the minds and vaults of initiates and adepts in the Mystery Schools. But now celebrated esoteric scholar and practitioner, Gareth Knight, offers … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, New books, Recommended reads, Uncategorized
Tagged Astral Plane, Cabbala, Channeling, Channelling, Coleridge, esoteric, Gareth Knight, Imagination, Kabbalah, Magic, meditation, Mysteries, Mystery Schools, Occult, Pathworking, qabala, Skylight Press, Sun Chalice Books, Symbolism, tarot, Trancework, Tree of Life, Visualization, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition
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The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend by Gareth Knight
The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend is the first of two important Gareth Knight reissues to come out this month, to be shortly followed by Magical Images and the Magical Imagination. On the one hand it is a remarkable study … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Ancient Britain, Ancient texts, archetype, Arthuriad, Arthurian Legends, Arthurian Tradition, Atlantis, atlantis and lemuria, Breton, British Literature, British mysteries, Brythonic Literature, Celtic Mythology, chrétien de troyes, Dion Fortune, England, esoteric, Faery Realms, France, french manuscripts, Gareth Knight, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Greek Mythology, holy grail, King Arthur, Lemuria, Literary analysis, literary scholar, Literature, Magic, Mallory, mediaeval, Medieval French History, Medieval History, Merlin, Middle Ages, Morte D'Arthur, mythology, Parsifal, Robert de Boron, Secret Tradition, Symbolism, Thomas Mallory, Tristan and Isolde, Wendy Berg, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, Wolfram von Eschenbach
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Interlocutors of Paradise by Martin Anderson
“Someone is singing, beyond the patio and the hedgerow, a song so sweet it might have been sung in paradise. Inconsolable melos. A lyric in a strange tongue. It sounds like part elegy, part yearning. Like someone nostalgic, perhaps, for … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Atmospheric, Autobiography, Biography, British Literature, british poet, British poetry, Colonialism, Edmund Spenser, English poetry, gustaf sobin, Gustav Sobin, Joseph Conrad, Landscape, Literature, London, Martin Anderson, Meditations, Memoir, Nathaniel Tarn, Nature Poetry, poetry, Post Colonialism, Post-Co, Prose poems, Prose poetry, Symbolism, The Thames, travel, Travelogue, W.G. Sebald, Walter Raleigh
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