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"This comprehensive selection includes complete texts of all Blake's best known work: The Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Book of Thel, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, America, The Book of Urizen, and Laocoon." "All Blake's significant lyric poems are included, and there are generous selections from The Four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem and The Everlasting Gospel. Each work (including the individual Songs) has an introduction describing a range of critical opinion. The annotation - the most detailed of any single-volume Blake - glosses difficult terms, provides information on Blake's intellectual and poetic sources and his historical contexts, describes significant differences between the unique individual copies of each illuminated book, and discusses all aspects of contemporary Blake scholarship. Modernization addresses the difficulties of Blake's text for first-time readers." "The visual aspects of Blake's composite verbal-visual art is fully acknowledged: every design from the illuminated books selected is described in detail. The book also contains overall introductions to discuss critical approaches to Blake's poetry, interpreting his designs, and the issue of modernizing his text."--Jacket.
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Exhibitions, English Engraving, Children's poetry, English, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, English poetry, Illustrations, English Art, Textual Criticism, Poetry, Spanish language materials, Non-Classifiable, 19th Century English Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Collected works (single author, multi-form), Children's poetry, English prose literature, Blake, william, 1757-1827Times
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William Blake: selected poetry and prose
2008, Pearson Longman
in English
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William Blake: a selection of poems and letters
1978, Penguin Books
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The poems: with specimens of the prose writings, of William Blake.
1885, W. Scott, limited
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-373) and index.
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William Blake is one of England’s most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith brings together her personal favorites of Blake’s poems, including the complete Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, to give a singular picture of this unique genius, whom she calls in her moving introduction “the spiritual ancestor” of generations of poets.
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