This beautiful, hardcover gift edition allows Blake to communicate with his readers as he intended, reproducing his illuminations and lettering from the finest existing example of the original. In this way readers can experience the mystery and beauty of Blake’s poems as he created them. This unique edition is essential for those who love Blake’s work, and also offers an ideal entrance into his visionary world for those encountering him for the first time.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent edition,
By meadowreader (Sandia Park, NM USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience (Hardcover)
A very high-quality hardback edition, with thick paper, sewn binding, and fine, full-size reproductions of Blake's illustrations from the excellent Cambridge originals. Originals vary a good deal; compare these with the muddy ones used in the Oxford edition. Each illustration faces the associated poem, the only sensible layout, but something the Oxford edition does not do, for some reason. The introductory notes by Richard Holmes are brief, but extremely good.
All that's lacking are detailed explanatory notes for the individual poems, but those are available on web and elsewhere, and they aren't much needed for these poems in any case.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A bit small - blurry images,
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This is actually a nice little book, but if you're looking for a quality hardcover version with beautiful reproductions of Blake's paintings, you might want to look somewhere else. The images are blurry and underwhelming. I bought this as a gift, and now I'm thinking of looking for another hardcover version that has better quality images.
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What a neat little book!,
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I had a hard time deciding what Blake book to get that had the "Songs of Innocence and Experience" with his plate illustrations, but after receiving this book I was very happy. It is somewhat small, but I did not find this to affect the quality at all. I also like the layout-illustration on right page with corresponding poem on the left.
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