New Releases by William Blake

William Blake is one of England''s most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies. This volume contains his greatest writings and a generous selection from the Prophetic Books including Milton and Jerusalem.

Brian Murray and Suzanne Toren read 45 poems on purity and corruption. Includes paperback edition of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

Milton is a difficult and cryptic poem for those uninitiated in the ways of Blake''s allusive and allegorical style. In an introductory essay, the editors directly address the nature of the poem''s complexity, demonstrate how Blake''s methods set out to disconcert conventional concepts of time, space, and human identity, and suggest some ways readers coming to Milton for the first time can understand and enjoy the challenges it offers. The editors also present a plate-by-plate commentary on how the illustrations contribute to the creation of a composite, visual-verbal experience. The extensive notes to the newly-edited letterpress text will also assist readers through Milton, its central themes and its byways, its heights and its depths. An equally helpful introduction and notes are provided for the three shorter works. Scholars will find much new information in this volume.

Classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable ensnarement in a corrupt and repressive world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in the original 1794 edition of both collections. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

This edition includes almost all Blake''s substantive variants with the exception of some in the exceptionally complex manuscript of Vala, or the Four Zoas.

A collection of William Blake''s poetry and prose.

Unabridged, with grayscale plates, version of Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake, offered here for chump change. Written in 1789, this classic poetry was originally hand colored on each page and is reproduced here in grayscale for a visually rich experience. Songs includes Blake''s most famous poem, "Tiger Tiger burning bright, In the forests of the night." Interesting to read and unique to Blake''s poetry in this collection, are that the poems of Innocence are often counter poised with the poems of Experience. This book of poetry is provided to the reader in a slim volume with all grayscale plates and text at an affordable price. Contents: SONGS OF INNOCENCE INTRODUCTION 4 THE SHEPHERD 4 THE ECHOING GREEN 5 THE LAMB 6 THE LITTLE BLACK BOY 6 THE BLOSSOM. 8 THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER 9 THE LITTLE BOY LOST 10 THE LITTLE BOY FOUND 10 LAUGHING SONG 11 A CRADLE SONG 12 THE DIVINE IMAGE. 13 HOLY THURSDAY 14 NURSE''S SONG 15 NIGHT 16 SPRING 18 INFANT JOY 19 A DREAM 19 ON ANOTHER''S SORROW 20 SONGS OF EXPERIENCE INTRODUCTION 22 EARTH''S ANSWER. 23 THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE 24 HOLY THURSDAY 24 THE LITTLE GIRL LOST 25 THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND 26 THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER 28 NURSE''S SONG 28 THE SICK ROSE 29 THE FLY 29 THE ANGEL 30 THE TIGER 31 MY PRETTY ROSE TREE 32 AH! SUNFLOWER 32 THE LILY 32 THE GARDEN OF LOVE 33 THE LITTLE VAGABOND 34 LONDON 35 THE HUMAN ABSTRACT. 36 INFANT SORROW 37 A LITTLE BOY LOST 37 A LITTLE GIRL LOST 38 A POISON TREE 39 TO TIRZAH 39 THE SCHOOL BOY 40 THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD 41