Blake: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) [Hardcover]

William Blake (Author)

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Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets | Publication Date: October 18, 1994

These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Prophetic Books, and an index of first lines.

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Abstinence Sows Sand All Over
All Religions Are One
An Ancient Proverb
The Angel That Presided O'er My Birth
The Angel, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Annotations To Swedenborg's Wisdom Of Angels
An Answer To The Parson
Are Not The Joys Of Morning Sweeter
Auguries Of Innocence
The Birds
The Blossom, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Book Of Ahania
The Book Of Los
The Book Of Thel
A Character
The Chimney Sweeper, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Chimney Sweeper, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Clod And The Pebble, Fr. Songs Of Experience
A Cradle Song
A Cradle Song, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Crystal Cabinet
Day
Deceit To Secresy Confin'd
A Divine Image, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Divine Image, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
A Dream, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
Earth's Answer, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Echoing Green, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
Eternity
The Everlasting Gospel (version 1)
Experiment
The First Book Of Urizen
The Fly, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Garden Of Love, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Golden Net
Holy Thursday, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Holy Thursday, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Human Abstract, Fr. Songs Of Experience
I Feard The Fury Of My Wind
I Heard An Angel Singing
I Laid Me Down Upon A Bank
If You Trap The Moment Before It's Ripe
In A Wife I Would Desire
Infant Joy, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
Infant Sorrow (ms. Version)
Infant Sorrow, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Lacedemonian Instruction
The Lamb, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Land Of Dreams
Laughing Song, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Lily, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Little Black Boy, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Little Boy Found, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
A Little Boy Lost, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Little Boy Lost, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Little Girl Found, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Little Girl Lost, Fr. Songs Of Experience
A Little Girl Lost, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Little Vagabond, Fr. Songs Of Experience
London
London, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell
The Look Of Love Alarms
Love To Faults Is Always Blind
The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell
The Marriage Ring
Mary
A Memorable Fancy: 1
A Memorable Fancy: 2
A Memorable Fancy: 3
A Memorable Fancy: 4
A Memorable Fancy: 5
The Mental Traveller
Merlin's Prophecy
Mock On, Mock On! Voltaire, Rousseau
Morning
Motto To The Songs Of Innocence & Of Experience
My Pretty Rose Tree, Fr. Songs Of Experience
My Spectre Around Me Night & Day
The New [or, Building Of] Jerusalem [or, To The Christians]
Night The Ninth
Night, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
Nurse's Song, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Nurse's Song, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
O Lapwing, Thou Fliest Around The Heath
An Old Maid Early, E'er I Knew
On Another's Sorrow, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
Poem From Manuscript
A Poison Tree, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Question Answer'd
Riches
The School Boy, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Shepherd, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Sick Rose, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Silent Silent Night
The Smile
Soft Snow
The Song Of Los
Songs Of Experience: Introduction
Songs Of Innocence: Introduction
Spring, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Sunflower, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Sword And The Sickle
There Is No Natural Religion (a)
There Is No Natural Religion (b)
They Say This Mystery Shall Never Cease
To My Friend Butts I Write
To Nobodaddy
To The Accuser Who Is The God Of This World: Epilogue
To Tirzah, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Tyger [tiger], Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Voice Of The Ancient Bard, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Voice Of The Devil
Why Should I Care For The Men Of Thames
The Wild Flower's Song
William Bond
With Happiness Stretch'd Across The Hills
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Prophetic Books, and an index of first lines.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Everyman's Library (October 18, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679436332
• ISBN-13: 978-0679436331
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.8 x 6.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mystical vision, July 10, 2002

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Timothy Lake (Oakwood OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blake: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Hardcover)

Blake is both a great mystic and a great poet. If you enjoy either poetry or mysticism or both you will like his poems. He tends to work on a large scale. For example all of the poems in Songs of Innocence fit a scheme and have a counterpart in Songs of Experience. I like this edition because it is very handsome with nice binding, and includes the major works of Blake. Now all you need is a book of his engravings and paintings.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the common reader not the scholar, July 10, 2006

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blake: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Hardcover)

This work contains 'The Songs of Innocence' 'The Songs of Experience' a selection from Blake's manuscripts, and from the longer Prophetic Books.
For the complicated Blake so loved by Northrop Frye and other literary critics this small edition of his work will of course, not do. But for the common reader, the one who loves the memorable short lines, the striking rhymes this edition is fine.
Great Blake seems so simple and makes myths in short lines and stanzas.
This is a very good collection for those who love the most popular Blake of all.