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Blake was a poet, painter, engraver and mystic.
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* Beautifully illustrated with numerous images relating to Blake's life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Famous poetry collections like SONGS OF INNOCENCE offer fully illustrated texts
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes a special ‘Plates’ section with Blake’s complete engravings, paintings and illustrations – spend hours exploring Blake's artistic genius in over 1,100 images!
* Features two biographies - discover Blake’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with missing books to JERUSALEM in response to customer's review
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CONTENTS:
The Poetry and Prose Books
POETICAL SKETCHES
AN ISLAND IN THE MOON
ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE
THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION
TIRIEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
THE BOOK OF THEL
THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION
AMERICA A PROPHECY
EUROPE A PROPHECY
THE FIRST BOOK OF URIZEN
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
THE BOOK OF LOS
THE SONG OF LOS
THE BOOK OF AHANIA
THE FOUR ZOAS
MILTON A POEM
JERUSALEM: THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION
SONGS AND BALLADS FROM BLAKE’S NOTEBOOK (1793)
SATIRIC VERSES AND EPIGRAMS FROM BLAKE’S NOTEBOOK
UNCOLLECTED WORKS
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Plates
CATALOGUE OF VISUAL WORKS
The Biographies
WILLIAM BLAKE by Irene Langridge
WILLIAM BLAKE by Charles Gardner
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William Blake was one of the England’s greatest poets, and one of England’s greatest artists. He united art and poetry in his “illuminated books”, which he painstakingly engraved with his verses and drawings, then coloured by hand. Only a few copies of each one were ever made. The illuminated books are a sublime expression of his unique religious and artistic vision, exploring good and evil, heaven and hell, and the nature of human imagination. Even after two centuries their timeless beauty can takes a viewer’s breath away. This monumental ebook edition brings together for the first time all of these immortal masterpieces, including Songs of Innocence and Experience, Milton, Jerusalem, and his “prophecies” America and Europe. This edition presents reproductions of every page of the illuminated books, with each one followed by the text of the poem, meticulously edited and fully searchable. All of the illustrations have been specially formatted for Kindle. They render in elegant black and white on e-paper Kindles, and in glorious full colour on tablets such as the iPad or Kindle Fire, or on Kindle for PC. Blake’s visionary works can finally be experienced as he himself intended, with words and art together in one.
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
William Blake
'And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour'
William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics of his era, he is now recognised as a major contributor to the Romantic Movement.
This edition presents Blake's poems in their literary categories and genres to which they belong: his much-loved lyrics, ballads, comic and satirical verse, descriptive and discursive poems, verse epistles, and, finally, his remarkable 'prophetic' poems, including the whole of his two diffuse epics, Milton and Jerusalem.
Blake's poetry is intellectually challenging as well as formally inventive, and this edition has a substantial critical introduction which places his ideas in the contemporary context of the Enlightenment and the artistic reaction against its key assumptions.
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
List of Works in Chronological Order
William Blake Biography
* America: A Prophecy
* Auguries of Innocence
* The Book of Thel
* Eternity
* Europe: A Prophecy
* The Gates of Paradise
* I Heard an Angel
* I saw a chapel all of gold
* An Island in the Moon
* The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
o The Argument
o The Voice of the Devil
o A Memorable Fancy
o Proverbs of Hell
o A Memorable Fancy 1
o A Memorable Fancy 2
o A Memorable Fancy 3
o A Song of Liberty
* Milton
* Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
* Poetical Sketches:
o Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
o To Autumn
o To the Evening Star
o To Morning
o To Spring
o To Summer
o To Winter
* Silent, Silent Night
* The Smile
* Songs of Innocence and Experience:
* Song of Innocense:
o The Shepherd
o The Echoing Green
o The Lamb
o The Little Black Boy
o The Blossom
o The Chimney-sweeper
o The Little Boy Lost
o The Little Boy Found
o Laughing Song
o A Cradle Song
o The Divine Image
o Holy Thursday
o Night
o Spring
o Nurse's Song
o Infant Joy
o A Dream
o On Another's Sorrow
* Songs of Experience:
o Earth's Answer
o The Clod And The Pebble
o Holy Thursday
o The Little Girl Lost
o The Little Girl Found
o The Chimney-Sweeper
o Nurse's Song
o The Sick Rose
o The Fly
o The Angel
o The Tiger
o My Pretty Rose Tree
o Ah, Sunflower
o The Lily
o The Garden Of Love
o The Little Vagabond
o London
o The Human Abstract
o Infant Sorrow
o A Poison tree
o A Little Boy Lost
o A Little Girl Lost
o A Divine Image
o A Cradle Song
o The Schoolboy
o To Tirzah
o The Voice Of The Ancient Bard
* Tiriel
* To the Accuser Who Is the God of This World
* To Nobodaddy
* Visions of the Daughters of Albion
The richly illuminated works of William Blake — poet, prophet, and artist — have fascinated readers since the late eighteenth century. In majestic verse illustrated with his own hand-colored plates, the poet explored profound and mystical themes, including the relationship between God and man and the concept of life as a journey toward spiritual self-knowledge.
One of Blake's most interesting and powerful creations, The Book of Urizen represents a parody of the book of Genesis, in which the righteous figure of God is replaced by that of Urizen, the "dark power" and obstacle to spiritual life. With "the voice of honest indignation," Blake compels readers to recognize and overcome their inner adversary in order to rise to higher levels of perception.
Incredibly beautiful in its combination of words and pictures, The Book of Urizen boasts some of Blake's most magnificent designs, rich in energy and monumental grandeur. For any lover of Blake, this edition represents an inexpensive opportunity to enjoy one of his finest works, including full-color reproductions of the poet's distinctive hand-colored plates and a printed transcription of the poem.
Although Blake labored in poverty and obscurity all his life, he is recognized today as one of the preeminent artists and poets of the English-speaking world. An 1825 commission from patron John Linnell enabled him to focus on illustrating Dante's tales — the type of visionary work to which his talents were ideally suited. The artist spent the last three years of his life creating these images, which range from completely finished pieces to rough sketches. Blake's highly original approach offers not only an excellent introduction to Dante's allegorical tales, but also a new and fresh perspective for those already familiar with the Divine Comedy.
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