Works of William Blake (Wordsworth Poetry Library) [Paperback]

William Blake (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1998 | ISBN-10: 1853264121 | ISBN-13: 978-1853264122

William Blake was a poet, engraver, painter and mystic and his poetry was revered by people as diverse as Wordsworth and Ruskin to W.B. Yeats. This volume is a collection of his work and includes: "Songs of Innocence"; "Songs of Experience"; and "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell".

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1853264121
• ISBN-13: 978-1853264122
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,131,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars More notes please, July 14, 2007

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Blake's greatness is not in question, nor is his difficulty. Northrop Frye said that Blake is of the great English poets the one for whom the largest share of his work remains largely unread and unknown. An explanation for that is that Blake's longer poems, his prophetic works are extremely difficult to understand. Thus any presentation of his work should have copious notes, even if that presentation centers on that smaller lyric poetry for which Blake is best known to the world. This present edition contains an introduction to Blake's work which is far too short to really give an overall sense of his life and development.
Nonetheless this edition contains much of the anthologized Blake, as well as selections from longer works like 'Milton' and 'Jerusalem'.
A reader can thus find here the best of Blake. But if the reader needs to go beyond the understanding he can attain by his own reading then this work must be supplemented by others.