This Enchanted Isle: The Neo-Romantic Vision from William Blake to the New Visionaries

How has Britain's mystical and mythological heritage inspired artists, writers, poets and visionaries throughout the ages? What elements of this transcendent philosophical history connect William Blake, the painters Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Michael Ayrton and John Minton and the writers John Cowper Powys, Arthur Machen, Peter Ackroyd and John Michell? Focusing on the Neo-Romantic movement in all aspects of art, the author challenges the idea that the mystical and sacred are no longer relevant to art. In a world where art is nothing more than an extension of advertising and nihilism, this is a call to re-enchant the world with the imagination of the spirit, and using new technology.