A collection of classic poems that provide an accessible introduction to the poetry of William Blake. Printed in a high quality, cloth edition each volume in the Crane Classics makes an attractive gift.
William Blake : Selected Poems
Description
Table of Contents
Selected and introduced by Anthony Eyre
Introduction
Song, from Poetical Sketches
Mad Song, from Poetical Sketches
The Cynic’s Song, from an Island in the Moon
Quid’s Song, from an Island in the Moon
The Law Giver’s Song from an Island in the Moon
Introduction, from Songs of Innocence
The Chimney Sweeper, from Songs of lnnocence
The Divine Image, from Songs of Innocence
Holy Thursday, from Songs of Innocence
Nurse’s Song, from Songs of Innocence from The Book of Thel
Never seek to tell thy love, from The Rossetti MS
I asked a Thief, from The Rossetti MS
Merlin’s Prophecy, from The Rossetti MS
The Sword and the Sickle, from The Rossetti MS
Abstinence and Desire Gratified, from The Rossetti MS
Eternity, from The Rossetti MS
Introduction, from Songs of Experience
The Clod and the Pebble, from Songs of Experience
Holy Thursday, from Songs of Experience
The Little Girl Lost, from Songs of Experience
The Little Girl Found, from Songs of Experience
The Chimney Sweeper, from Songs of Experience
Nurse’s Song, from Songs of Experience
The Tyger, from Songs of Experience
The Lilly, from Songs of Experience
The Garden of Love, from Songs of Experience
The Little Vagabond, from Songs of Experience
London, from Songs of Experience
The Human Abstract, from Songs of Experience
A Poison Tree, from Songs of Experience
Proverbs of Hell, from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
from Visions of the Daughters of Albion
from America a Prophecy
from Europe a Prophecy
A Fairy leapt upon my knee, from MS
from Vala, or the Four Zoas
To Mrs Anna Flaxman, from MS
Mock on, from The Rossetti MS
Hayley, from The Rossetti MS
On Hayley the Pickthank, from The Rossetti MS
Haines the Painter, from The Rossetti MS
O why was I born with a different face?
To Cromek, from The Rossetti MS
On Flaxman and Stothard, from The Rossetti MS
Stothard, from The Rossetti MS
To God, from The Rossetti MS
Henry Fuseli, from The Rossetti MS
Auguries of Innocence, from The Rossetti MS
To the Queen, from The Grave, 1808
The Caverns of the Grave I’ve seen, from The Rossetti MS
from Milton
from Jerusalem
Lament of the Daughters of Albion, from Jerusalem
from For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise
Author Description
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age