William Blake
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Blake's illuminated books volume 2
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This collection of poems by famous English Romantic poet William Blake comprises two volumes in one. Self-published by Blake, the first collection entitled "Songs of Innocence", first appeared in 1789. This volume focuses on the pastoral and innocent perfection of childhood. The tone is beautiful and often delicately romantic. However, there is also a dark side to the naivety of childhood. Blake explores the vulnerability of the poor and the young...
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Routledge & K. Paul
Pub. Date
1969
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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.
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Often rated as important as the Bible as a Christian document, this famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against realistic backdrops of town and country, the powerful drama of the pilgrim's trials and temptations follows him in his harrowing journey to the Celestial City. Along a road filled with monsters and spiritual terrors, Christian confronts...
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Blake's illuminated books volume 1
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William Blake Trust/Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1991
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Jerusalem, the longest of Blake's illuminated epic poems, aims to sum up his entire religious and artistic philosophy. Blake's own mythological characters, including Jerusalem and Albion (female and male manifestations of the human spirit who long to be united again) and Los (a manifestation of artistic imagination), join a cast that includes, Jesus, John Newton and others. Blake expounds on matters scientific, spiritual and sexual in a poem that...
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Leo and Wolfe Photography
Pub. Date
c2004
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Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake - The simple and beautiful eloquence of William Blake's poetry is exemplified here in "Songs of Innocence and of Experience." This collection of forty-six poems is actually two volumes in one. After first completing and publishing "Songs of Innocence" in 1789 Blake would, some five years later, add "Songs of Experience" to the volume in an effort to show "the two contrary states of the human soul."...
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Blake's illuminated books volume 5
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William Blake Trust/Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1993
14) The Urizen books
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Blake's illuminated books volume 6
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1995
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Blake's illuminated books volume 3
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William Blake Trust/Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1993
