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This Enchanted Isle

The Neo-Romantic Vision
from William Blake to the New Visionaries

Peter Woodcock

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What are the connections between William Blake, the painters Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, John Piper; and the writers John Cowper Powys, Peter Ackroyd, Elizabeth Bowen and Iain Sinclair?

How did Doctor Dee, astrologer and alchemist to Queen Elizabeth I, get onto celluloid?

How is the Spirit of Place (psychogeography) relevant now? Does the Spirit of Place still exist in our culture or have we lost our spiritual heritage to the conglomeration of market forces and corporate art? Quietly, out of the mainstream hype, artists are exploring the landscape, revealing its secret language through painting, writing, film-making and multimedia.

PETER WOODCOCK has had a love of Neo-Romanticism since his student days. At the RCA in the early Sixties he was tutored by Edward Bawden, who himself was taught by Paul Nash, one of the precursors of the Neo-Romantic movement. Peter has worked as an illustrator on a wide range of publications and taught for over twenty years at Camberwell College of Art, London.

Based on the themes of alchemy and ancient myths, he has exhibited his work in London, New York, Bristol and Glastonbury. In 1998 he co-produced The Complex Vision for HTV on the writer John Cowper Powys.

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• WE ARE MAKING A NEW WORLD

• CHAPTER 1  AWAKE ALBION! AWAKE!
   About William Blake

• CHAPTER 12  READING THE LANDSCAPE

• CHAPTER 13  JOHN COWPER POWYS
   The way of the magician

• CHAPTER 30  THE SPIRIT OF PLACE

• CHAPTER 31  RE-ENCHANTING THE
   LAND  Neo-Romanticism and beyond

This Enchanted Isle

The Neo-Romantic Vision
from William Blake
to the New Visionaries

Peter Woodcock

250 x 230 mm, 192 pp, fully illustrated, ISBN 0 906362 45 8 £18.95 / $35.00	Order here
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CONTENTS

• WE ARE MAKING A NEW WORLD

• CHAPTER ONE
AWAKE ALBION! AWAKE!
William Blake

• CHAPTER TWO
THE VALLEY OF VISION
The works of Samuel Palmer

• CHAPTER THREE
FALLING STARS AND MONSTROUS MOONS
The art of Paul Nash

• CHAPTER FOUR
BARBED NATURE - PIERCED FLESH
The work of Graham Sutherland

• CHAPTER FIVE
ENGLAND DREAMING
The works of John Piper

• CHAPTER SIX
BOMB SITES, CORSICA AND A BIT OF ROUGH
The art of John Minton

• CHAPTER SEVEN
INTO THE LABYRINTH
The World of Michael Ayrton

• CHAPTER EIGHT
KEITH VAUGHAN
The Male Muse

• CHAPTER NINE
NATURE UNBOUND
The work of Prunella Clough

• CHAPTER 10
FOLLY TO BE WISE
The world of Barbara Jones

• CHAPTER 11
BYZANTINE LANDSCAPE
John Craxton

• CHAPTER 12
READING THE LANDSCAPE

• CHAPTER 13
JOHN COWPER POWYS
The way of the magician

• CHAPTER 14
ARTHUR MACHEN
The Hill of Dreams

• CHAPTER 15
DENTON WELCH
A Voice through a Cloud

• CHAPTER 16
RUINS, SHADOWS AND MOONLIGHT
The writings of Elizabeth Bowen

• CHAPTER 17
GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD
Rogue Male

• CHAPTER 18
THE ART OF SHADOWS
The novels of Peter Ackroyd

• CHAPTER 19
WALKING THE RUNES
Occult geography - the writings of Iain Sinclair

• CHAPTER 20
CHRIS PETIT
The Lost Domains: Soho and Fitzrovia

• CHAPTER 21
THE CELLULOID VISION

• CHAPTER 22
POWELL AND PRESSBURGER
Stairway to the stars, and...
BASH STREET KIDS
Charles Crichton

• CHAPTER 23
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
David Lean

• CHAPTER 24
CELLULOID GOTHIC
The Innocents - Jack Clayton

• CHAPTER 25
ANGELIC CONVERSATIONS
The work of Derek Jarman

• CHAPTER 26
RADIO ON
by Chris Petit

• CHAPTER27
JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE WORLD
Two films by Patrick Keiller

• CHAPTER 28
A RETURN TO THE GARDEN
David Blackburn

• CHAPTER 29
SECRET LANDSCAPES
The art of Derek Hyatt

• CHAPTER 30
THE SPIRIT OF PLACE

• Chapter 31
RE-ENCHANTING THE LAND
Neo-Romanticism and beyond

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