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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The poems of William Blake
1973, Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Printing House
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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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"The text of this edition is based on the 1957 Nonesuch edition of The complete writings of William Blake, edited by Geoffrey Keynes. In a few places emendations or new readings have been adapted from the 1965 Doubleday edition of The poetry and prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman."--p. xxiv.
Issued in a case.
"Of this edition ... fifteen hundred copies have been made for the members of The Limited Edition Club."
Bentley, G.E., Blake books, A296
Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.
Victoria University Library copy is no. 1274 of 1500 copies.
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