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William Blake

Also known as: Blake William, William BLAKE

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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".His visual artistry has led one British art journalist to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".Although he only once journeyed farther than a day's walk outside London during his lifetime,he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God",or "Human existence itself".

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Piping down the valleys wild,

— from Songs of Innocence and Experience, 1971

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SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE : SHREWING THE TWO CONTRARY STATES OF THE HUMAN SOUL, 1789 - 1794 / by William Blake, Introduction and Commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes

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Reproduces the texts and the fifty-four hand-colored etchings of Blake's famous and now much sought-after double volume of lyrics. Here is a beautifully illustrated edition of Blake's classic poems. The text of each poem is given in letterpress on the page facing the color plate, and a brief commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes on each poem follows. It is printed on paper especially manufactured to match the tint of that used by Blake.

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Poems and Prose

2001

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"The distinctive autumnal and melancholy tone of Trakl's work - especially admired by his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein - reflects the spiritual and social disintegration on the eve of the First World War. The generalized sense of anguish and exaltation of this period is the background to Trakl's transcendent, often hymnic, always lyrical voice and to his haunting imagery in which purgatory and paradise are never far apart. This bilingual edition, the most comprehensive to date, gives English-language readers the chance to get to know Trakl's work more fully than ever before."--Jacket.

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Songs of Innocence and Experience

1971

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books of poetry by William Blake. Songs of Innocence honors and praises the natural world, the natural innocence of children and their close relationship to God. Songs of Experience contains much darker, disillusioned poems, which deal with serious, often political themes. It is believed that the disastrous end to the French Revolution produced this disillusionment in Blake. He does, however, maintain that true innocence is achieved only through experience.

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