William Blake

Name: William Blake
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780753816554

by Unknown Author

4.0

(1 ratings)

160 pages2003Phoenix PressISBN 9780753816554

Poetry

About this book

Hear the voice of the Bard! Who Present, Past, & Future sees Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walk'd among the ancient trees. --from "Songs of Experience" Both as poet and painter, William Blake created uncompromising, highly original art. He was strongly influenced by the spiritual: he claimed to have seen angels, and to have spoken with the many supernatural beings who populated his verses and visual images. The many remarkable works gathered in this very special collection come from his Poetical Sketches, There Is No Natural Religion, Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, The Book of Urizen, For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, and others. Blake's powerful use of language truly makes it possible--as he wrote in "Auguries of Innocence"--"To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower."

Publication Details

Publisher: Phoenix Press
Published: 2003
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780753816554
Language: en

About Unknown Author

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