William Blake: Selected Poems

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'To see a World in a Grain of Sand 'And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour' William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics of his era, he is now recognised as a major contributor to the Romantic Movement. This edition presents Blake's poems in their literary categories and genres to which they belong: his much-loved lyrics, ballads, comic and satirical verse, descriptive and discursive poems, verse epistles, and, finally, his remarkable 'prophetic' poems, including the whole of his two diffuse epics, Milton and Jerusalem. Blake's poetry is intellectually challenging as well as formally inventive, and this edition has a substantial critical introduction which places his ideas in the contemporary context of the Enlightenment and the artistic reaction against its key assumptions.
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Authors:
Blake, William
Year Published:
2019
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
Editors:
Shrimpton, Nicholas (Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford)
ISBN:
9780198804468
Number of Pages:
512
Place of Publication:
Oxford
Publication Date:
25/01/2019
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
SKU:
9780198804468

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