The Complete Poems
$35.55
- Paperback
1072 pages
- Release Date
24 November 1977
Summary
The complete collection of Blake’s symbolic and revolutionary poems, from the deceptive simplicity of Songs of Innocence, to the grandeur of Jerusalem.
One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience - which juxtapose poems such as ‘The Lamb’ and ‘The Tyger’, and ‘The Blossom’ and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140422153 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140422153 |
| Author: | William Blake, Alicia Ostriker |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1072 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 24 November 1977 |
| Weight: | 724g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 45mm |
| Series: | Penguin English Poets |
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William Blake
William Blake (1757 - 1827) was the son of a London hosier. Having attended Henry Parr’s drawing school, he was apprenticed as an engraver to the Society of Antiquaries in 1772 and later was admitted to the Royal Academy. He married in 1782 and published his first work, Poetical Sketches, in 1783. The first of his ‘illuminated books’ was Songs of Innocence in 1789. Blake’s work over the next twenty years chart the refining of his ideas and beliefs, from a recognition of repression in Songs of Experience to his epic works Milton and Jerusalem which present a renewed vision of reconciliation between humanity.
Alicia Ostriker is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA.
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