William Blake is one of England’s most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith brings together her personal favorites of Blake’s poems, including the complete Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, to give a singular picture of this unique genius, whom she calls in her moving introduction “the spiritual ancestor” of generations of poets.
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William Blake: a selection of poems and letters
1978, Penguin Books
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William Blake: being all his woodcuts photographically reproduced in facsimile
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William Blake.: XVII designs to Thornton's Virgil, reproduced from the original woodcuts, MDCCCXXI.
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The poems: with specimens of the prose writings, of William Blake.
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Reproduces Blake's "Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I" ("Thenot and Colinet", by Ambrose Philips) in the 1821 3rd edition of Robert John Thornton's The pastorals of Virgil; each leaf of illustration preceded by leaf containing the relevant lines from Philips' poem.
"Here ends William Blake, by Laurence Binyon, being number II of Little engravings, edited by T. Sturge Moore. Printed by Morrison and Gibb Limited, Tanfield, Edinburgh, for the Unicorn Press, Limited, London, and for Longmans, Green & Co. New York. MDCCCCII"--Colophon; Unicorn Press device on following leaf.
Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 506
Gift to Victoria University Library. Tarshis, Inga.
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