William Blake: Poems Selected by James Fenton

Name: William Blake: Poems Selected by James Fenton
Author: William Blake
ISBN: 9780571275526

by William Blake

128 pages2011ISBN 9780571275526

English poetry

About this book

One of eight wonderful collections, celebrating the best of Romantic poetry - also included in the series is Byron, Clare, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Burns and Keats.

Publication Details

Published: 2011
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780571275526

About William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[1] His visual artistry has led one British art journalist to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[2] Although he only once journeyed farther than a day's walk outside London during his lifetime,[3] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God",[4] or "Human existence itself".[5] ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake