Thanks, Farasha. I'm reading a book that I suspect you'd like. Roger Sworder (2008, orig. 1995), Mining, Metallurgy and the Meaning of Life. About the place of the different metals in various bodies of myth; the sacred dimension of mining, depending on the society; the desacralization of work by the Reformation; and the contrast between Blake and Wordsworth on both work and Nature. The latter may be familiar to you already, but discovering it was eye-opening for me. I will read Kathleen Raine's book.
Thank you Robert. It is a book title I have seen referenced a few times, but haven't had the chance to read it yet. For Blake, Eric Gill and David Jones work was a sacrament. One used to do what he/she loved for work and it would be a form of prayer. The things we had to do were done in free time. Now this is inversed with terrible consequences. I will check out the Sworder book. Thank you again.
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
from Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Thanks, Farasha. I'm reading a book that I suspect you'd like. Roger Sworder (2008, orig. 1995), Mining, Metallurgy and the Meaning of Life. About the place of the different metals in various bodies of myth; the sacred dimension of mining, depending on the society; the desacralization of work by the Reformation; and the contrast between Blake and Wordsworth on both work and Nature. The latter may be familiar to you already, but discovering it was eye-opening for me. I will read Kathleen Raine's book.
Thank you Robert. It is a book title I have seen referenced a few times, but haven't had the chance to read it yet. For Blake, Eric Gill and David Jones work was a sacrament. One used to do what he/she loved for work and it would be a form of prayer. The things we had to do were done in free time. Now this is inversed with terrible consequences. I will check out the Sworder book. Thank you again.