Here is a beautifully illustrated edition of Blake's classic poems. The text of each poem is given in letterpress on the page facing the color plate, and a brief commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes on each poem follows. It is printed on paper especially manufactured to match the tint of that used by Blake.
Here is a beautifully illustrated edition of Blake's classic poems. The text of each poem is given in letterpress on the page facing the color plate, ...
One of a series designed to provide an accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights, each text in the 'Oxford Students Text' series includes general notes on the text, a discussion of the themes, issues and contexts and suggestions for further reading.
One of a series designed to provide an accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights, each text in the 'Oxford Students Text' series...
Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull.
William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin, W.B.Yeats, and more recently beat poet Allen Ginsberg and the 'flower power' generation. He is one of England's most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies and subvert 'the mind-forged manacles' of restriction.
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Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull.
Occupying a key position in the history of western art, this book allows the author to communicate with his readers as he intended. It helps the readers to experience the mystery and beauty of his poems as he first created them, discovering for themselves the intricate web of symbol and meaning that connects word and image.
Occupying a key position in the history of western art, this book allows the author to communicate with his readers as he intended. It helps the reade...
Contains the full text of Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, a selection from the Prophetic Books and his didactic poems and prose writings which reveal Blake as a major Romantic poet. Also included are a number of short poems which were unpublished in Blake's lifetime.
Contains the full text of Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, a selection from the Prophetic Books and his didactic poems and prose writings whic...
Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement's five most famous poets -- William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and John Keats -- are represented in this handsome Word Cloud Classics volume, The Romantic Poets. One of the largest and most influential artistic movements in history, Romanticism valued intuition and pastoralism, and its themes are well represented in the...
Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natura...
William Blake's strikingly original poetic world of myth and mysticism continues to fascinate. This selection represents the full range of his accomplishments, from his haunting lyrics to his political works.
William Blake's strikingly original poetic world of myth and mysticism continues to fascinate. This selection represents the full range of his accompl...
