William Blake

Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth or the corruption caused by mankind, his writings depict a world in which spirits dominate and the mind is the gateway to Heaven. This collection of his greatest works spans his entire poetic life from the early, exquisite lyrics of Poetic Sketches to his Songs of Innocence and Experience - a compelling exploration of good and evil. Together, they illuminate a self-made realm that has fascinated artists and poets as diverse as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Yeats and Ginsberg.

From the introduction by Stanley Kunitz: Blake speaks more directly to us, anticipating the issues, conflicts, and anxieties of the modern world, than any of his contemporaries. It could be argued that he dared, in fact, to be the first modern poet. . . . Above all, Blake teaches us that the imagination is a portion of the divine principle, that "Energy is Eternal Delight," and that "everything that lives is Holy." Human liberty and imagination have never been better served.

William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This selection was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W. B. Yeats, who had previously been one of the pioneer editors of Blake's prophetic books. Yeats, one of the few poets whose work could be compared with that of Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings. There is no better way to encounter the work of one poetic genius than as it is presented by another, and Yeats understood Blake in a way few others did.

William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This selection was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W. B. Yeats, who had previously been one of the pioneer editors of Blake's prophetic books. Yeats, one of the few poets whose work could be compared with that of Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings. There is no better way to encounter the work of one poetic genius than as it is presented by another, and Yeats understood Blake in a way few others did.

Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin, W. B. Yeats, and more recently beat poet Allen Ginsberg and the 'flower power' generation. He is one of England's most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies and subvert 'the mind-forged manacles' of restriction. This volume contains many of his writings, including: 'Songs of Innocence', 'Songs of Experience', 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell', and a generous selection from the Prophetic Books including 'Milton' and 'Jerusalem'.

Two classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable corruption by a harsh and unjust world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in the original 1794 edition of both collections. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines. Publisher's Note.

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The core of William Blake's vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. In 1949 the William Blake Trust was founded to bring these rare, in some cases unique, works to a wider general audience through the publication of superbly produced facsimiles of each book. By the late 1980's these facsimiles had themselves become rare books. The Trust accordingly resolved to initiate a collected edition that would publish accurate reproductions of all the Illuminated Books to be accompanied by notes and commentaries by leading Blake scholars. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, one of the best known of the books, is now reproduced in paperback for the first time from the King's College, Cambridge copy--sometimes known as "Blake's own copy." The poems have been edited with introduction, notes, commentaries, and bibliography.

Blake's explosive lyrical genius is here represented by the full text of 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience', plus a wide range of marvellous short poems unpublished in his lifetime. In addition there is a selection from the Prophetic Books in which the poet develops his own story of creation - alternately crazy and magnificent and from his dramatic and didactic poems and prose writings which reveal Blake as a major poet of the Romantic movement.

William Blake (1757-1827) var den store visionäre poeten som dagligen umgicks med änglar och demoner, som skrev sina poem i flödande inspiration och uttryckte sej i hisnande bild-dikt, konstverk som han själv framställde med till stora delar självuppfunnen tryckteknik, gjorde sina egna plåtar, tryckte med egen enkel press. Aldrig uppskattad under sin levnad (idag hållen för en av Englands största, i nivå med Milton och Shakespeare), dog utfattig, begravdes utan gravsten, hans hustru Catherine ärvde i stort sett bara en massa bilder och tryckplåtar som dödsboets exekutor bryskt dumpade för att få in pengar till omkostnader (idag betingar Blakes originalbilder astronomiska värden och återfinns på museer och i miljardärers privatsamlingar). Blake var en genuin mystiker, han uppnådde direktkontakt med andevärlden och skrev sin poesi under gudomlig inspiration, han har många gånger i brev beskrivit hur hans verk tillkom þunder direkt diktamenþ från andevärlden. Blake upplevde i detta mystikens tillstånd en enhet i allt, i tillvaron och i allt levande, every thing that lives is holy. 1794 författade och tryckte han boken Europe: A Prophecy som blev en av hans mest spännande gåtfulla och mest visionära böcker – om ett Europa i skälvning och samtidigt, som alltid när det gäller Blake, om människosjälens vandringar och irrfärder i universum, om själens instängdhet i de fem sinnenas fängelse, om att allt måste brytas, befria sinnena, befria själen, riv, rasera, ut, upp, iväg! Europa (och världen) kunde vara en frihetens boning, men det materialistiska tänkandet sätter girighetens kugghjul i tung rotation och metodiskt mals allt och alla ner i det förslavande rutnätet. Här är boken i svensk översättning. En förunderlig bok, högröstad och ändå varm, bildflödande och ändå med precision, fortfarande lika visionär.

This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how it helped to create a poetry which is unlike any other.