Selected Poems (Blake, William)
by Blake, William (Author); Bentley, Gerald E. (Editor/introduction); Bentley, Gerald E. (Notes by)Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-03-28
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
William Blake (1757-û1827) was a British poet, painter, engraver, and visionary mystic who proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the eighteenth century.
G. E. Bentley, Jr., has taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Toronto and is an authority on Blake and his world.
G. E. Bentley, Jr., has taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Toronto and is an authority on Blake and his world.
Table of Contents
| Poetical sketches | p. 3 |
| 'An island in the moon' | p. 9 |
| Songs by shepherds | p. 10 |
| Tiriel | p. 12 |
| Songs of innocence | p. 24 |
| The book of Thel | p. 42 |
| The marriage of heaven and hell | p. 47 |
| 'A fairy leapt' | p. 60 |
| Visions of the daughters of Albion | p. 61 |
| America a prophecy | p. 69 |
| Notebook | p. 78 |
| Songs of experience | p. 116 |
| Europe a prophecy | p. 129 |
| The first book of Urizen | p. 138 |
| The song of Los | p. 154 |
| A asked a thief | p. 158 |
| Vala or the four Zoa's | p. 159 |
| Letters | p. 233 |
| Milton | p. 240 |
| Jerusalem | p. 255 |
| To the queen | p. 289 |
| The ballads or Pickering manuscript | p. 290 |
| The ghost of Abel | p. 299 |
| For the sexes : the gates of paradise | p. 302 |
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Excerpts
The Clod and the Pebble
"Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a heaven in hell's despair."
So sung a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden with the cattle's feet,
But a Pebble of the brook
Warbled out these metres meet:
"Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a hell in heaven's despite."
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