William Blake is one of England's most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies. This volume contains his greatest writings and a generous selection from the Prophetic Books including Milton and Jerusalem.
William Blake. rhetoric of prophecy ( “ The shadowy daughter of Urthona stood ... ” ) . But Blake had more modes than just these two . This selection of the poems attempts to follow the lyrical impulse of the poet through the various ...
A selection of Blake's poetry made by William Butler Yeats in 1905, which helped to restore the reputation and awareness of Blake, who had been undervalued and forgotten up until then.
Represents the full range of Blake's accomplishment as a poet.
So I piped with merry cheer ; ' Piper , pipe that song again ! So I piped - he wept to hear . ' Drop thy pipe , thy happy pipe 10 Sing thy songs of happy cheer ! So I sung the same again While he wept with joy to hear .
Sumptuously illustrated, this beautiful volume presents the National Gallery of Victoria's Blake holdings, which include illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost and The Book of Job, among other works.
This edition presents Blake's poems in their literary categories and genres to which they belong: his much-loved lyrics, ballads, comic and satirical verse, descriptive and discursive poems, verse epistles, and, finally, his remarkable ...
Selected Poems
William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose
This book is a collection of poems by William Blake, an accomplished painter and engraver who conceived and executed most of his major works as illustrated books.
Erdman, David V., Blake: Prophet Against Empire: A Poet's Interpretation of the History of his Own Times (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954); revised edition (Garden City, New York: Anchor, 1969).