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William Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. This collection brings together a selection of Blake's poems, including the poems: "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience", to give a singular picture of this unique genius.

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A visionary genius... There are passages of brilliance everywhere... The wonder of Blake is that he had an imagination that brought together words and images * Independent *
There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron -- William Wordsworth
The movement of his [Blake's] early verse are like the gambollings of some very powerful animal, still in its fluffy-footed and tottering babyhood -- Samuel Butler Yeats
[Blake] always insists on the importance of the pure, clean line that evokes and creates the figure on the background of the uncreated void -- James Joyce
Blake is a great liberating imaginative force -- Tom Paulin

Poems

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 1 November 2007
      ISBN-13 9780099511632
      978-0099511632
      ISBN-10 0099511630
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      William Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. This collection brings together a selection of Blake's poems, including the poems: "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience", to give a singular picture of this unique genius.

      Trade Review
      A visionary genius... There are passages of brilliance everywhere... The wonder of Blake is that he had an imagination that brought together words and images * Independent *
      There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron -- William Wordsworth
      The movement of his [Blake's] early verse are like the gambollings of some very powerful animal, still in its fluffy-footed and tottering babyhood -- Samuel Butler Yeats
      [Blake] always insists on the importance of the pure, clean line that evokes and creates the figure on the background of the uncreated void -- James Joyce
      Blake is a great liberating imaginative force -- Tom Paulin

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