Selected Poetical Works: Blake : Annotated Edition (Great Poets Series) by Blake, William

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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.