Selected Poetry (World's Classics) [Paperback]

William Blake (Author), Michael Mason (Editor)

Book Description

Series: World's Classics | Publication Date: October 24, 1996

The Oxford Poetry Library series offers compact and fully annotated editions of some of the most important and best-loved English poets. Drawing on the acclaimed texts of the Oxford Authors series, these collections provide a generous selection of the verse of figures as diverse as Andrew Marvell and William Blake, John Keats and Thomas Hardy. Ideal for anyone interested in the eloquently wrought observations and thoughts of some of the English language's greatest writers, The Oxford Poetry Library should find a welcome place on the bookshelves of all lovers of literature.
Beginning his career as an engraver, it was not until his thirties that William Blake distinguished himself as a poet. This new edition of Blake's verse, presented in chronological order, encompasses Blake's entire career, from his early Poetical Sketches and There is No Natural Religion through his best known work Songs of Innocence, part of his beautiful series of poetry in lyric and blank verse, to his later works Jerusalem and The Everlasting Gospel. Representing the full range of Blake's accomplishements as a poet, this outstanding volume highlights the extraordinarily diverse achievments of his remarkable poetic oeuvre.

Editorial Reviews

Review

(i)
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
Anger And Wrath
An Answer To The Parson
Are Not The Joys Of Morning Sweeter
As I Wandered
Auguries Of Innocence
The Blossom, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Book Of Thel
Book Two: Lines 217-end
The Chimney Sweeper, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Chimney Sweeper, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Clod And The Pebble, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Confession Of Albion
A Cradle Song
A Cradle Song, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Crystal Cabinet
The Cynic's First Song
The Cynic's Second Song
Day
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
Erin Mourns At The Tomb Of Albion
Eternity
Europe A Prophecy
The Everlasting Gospel (version 1)
The Fairy
A Fairy Stepped Upon My Knee
The Fly, Fr. Songs Of Experience
From Islington To Marybone
From The Annotations To Bishop Berkeley's Siris
The Garden Of Love, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Golden Net
Great Things Are Done
Greater Men And Fools
Grown Old In Love From Seven To Seven Times Seven
He's A Blockhead
Her Whole Life Is An Epigram
Holy Thursday, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Holy Thursday, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
How To Know Love From Deceit
The Human Abstract, Fr. Songs Of Experience
I Am No Homer's Hero
I Asked A Thief
I Feard The Fury Of My Wind
I Laid Me Down Upon A Bank
I Rose Up
I Saw A Chapel
I Stood Among My Valleys Of The South
If I E'er Grow
If You Play A Game Of Chance
If You Trap The Moment Before It's Ripe
Imitation Of Pope: A Compliment To The Ladies
In A Myrtle Shade
In A Wife I Would Desire
In The World Of The Dead Albion
Infant Joy, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
Infant Sorrow, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Jerusalem, Vala, And The Daughters Of Albion
King Edward The Third
The Lamb, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Land Of Dreams
Laughing Song, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Lawgiver's Song [or, Good English Hospitality]
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 Girl Found, Fr. Songs Of Experience
A Little Girl Lost, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Little Girl Lost, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Little Vagabond, Fr. Songs Of Experience
London, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell
The Look Of Love Alarms
Los Explores Albion
Mad Song
Madman I Have Been Called
Marriage
Mary
The Mental Traveller
Merlin's Prophesy
Mock On, Mock On! Voltaire, Rousseau
The Monk
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, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
Nurse's Song, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Nurse's Song, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
O Lapwing
O Lapwing, Thou Fliest Around The Heath
Obtuse Angle's Song
An Old Maid Early, E'er I Knew
On Another's Sorrow, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
On The Virginity Of The Virgin Mary And Johanna Southcott
Poem From Manuscript
A Poison Tree, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Question Answer'd
Reader, Lover Of Books, Lover Of Heaven
Reconciliation And Joy
Riches
The School Boy, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Shepherd, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
Silent Silent Night
Since All The Riches
The Smile
Soft Snow
Some Men Created For Destruction Come
Song
Song
Song
Song
Song
Song
Song
Song First By A Shepherd
Song Third By An Old Shepherd
Songs Of Experience: Introduction
Songs Of Innocence: Introduction
Spring, Fr. Songs Of Innocence
The Sunflower, Fr. Songs Of Experience
The Sword And The Sickle
Terror In The House Does Roar
Thou Hast A Lap Full Of Seed
Tiriel
To Autumn
To Chloe's Breast
To God
To Morning
To My Friend Butts
To My Myrtle [mirtle]
To Nobodaddy
To Spring
To Summer
To The Evening Star
To Thomas Butts (3)
To Tirzah, Fr. Songs Of Experience
To Winter
The Tyger [tiger], Fr. Songs Of Experience
Visions Of The Daughters Of Albion
The Voice Of The Ancient Bard, Fr. Songs Of Experience
Why Should I Care For The Men Of Thames
Why Was Cupid A Boy
William Bond
A Woman Scaly
You Don't Believe
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

About the Editor:
Michael Mason is Senior Lecturer in English, University College, London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 24, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0192832727
• ISBN-13: 978-0192832726
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps The First Modern Poet., August 31, 1999

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This review is from: Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)

Contained in this collection are most if not all of Blake's most essential works,including "The Marriage Of Heaven & Hell";the two songs,"Auguries Of Innocence"; etc..In the creative fertility of this great poet came some of the greatest lines ever written in the English language,or any language for that matter.His conjuring of visions perhaps is the first written document of modern poetry,heralding what is to come.

5.0 out of 5 stars What immortal hand or eye, December 15, 2005

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The prophetic Blake of Zoas, Jerusalem , and the other long -poems has always escaped me.
The Blake of the short memorable lyrics , of the 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' reverberates in my mind.
The Blake of proverb always strikes a strong note.
All the radical ideology ,and the fervor of an upturner of worlds , the solitary angry social critic too has not meant that much to me.
But 'Little Lamb who made thee/Dost thou know who made thee?/
and Tyger/Tyger/ Burning bright in the forest of the night/ these fascinate as only real poetry does.
Little Lamb who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?