Selected Poetical Works: Blake

William Blake author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Alma Books Ltd

Published:22nd Oct '20

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Selected Poetical Works: Blake cover

This volume includes a comprehensive selection covering almost four decades of poetical activity and displaying the author's originality and independence of mind at their sparkling best.

This volume includes an essential selection of Blake's poetry, from the lesser-known Poetical Sketches to his celebrated Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the "prophetic works" inspired by the French Revolution.Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant as a painter and draughtsman as in the field of poetry, he created works that are often difficult to categorize and that, while harking back to a classical and biblical past, also look forward to the future - with authors such as T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and the Beat poets among his many modern admirers. This volume includes an essential selection of Blake's poetry, from the lesser-known Poetical Sketches to his celebrated Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the "prophetic works" inspired by the French Revolution, covering over two decades of poetical activity and displaying the author's originality and independence of mind at their sparkling best.

ISBN: 9781847498212

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288 pages