
William Blake: Selected Poems
William Blake(Author)
Nicholas Shrimpton(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 25. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-19-880446-8 (ISBN)
Description
'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.
'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.
Reviews / Votes
New and innovative ... a brilliant chronological timeline ... by combining historical research with literary scholarship, Shrimpton creates a version of Blake's poems which is significantly different to all others ... a fresh view which allows readers to see the development of Blake's thoughts and poems. * Journal of the Blake Society *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
348 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-880446-8 (9780198804468)
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William Blake | Nicholas Shrimpton
William Blake: Selected Poems
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1st Edition
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William Blake | Nicholas Shrimpton
William Blake: Selected Poems
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William Blake | Michael Mason
Selected Poetry
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08/2008
Oxford University Press
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Persons
Nicholas Shrimpton is the editor of Trollope's The Prime Minister (2011), The Warden (2014), and An Autobiography (2016), for Oxford World's Classics. His most recent title for Oxford World's Classics is Disraeli's Sybil (2017).
Author
Editor
Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Content
Abbreviations Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of William BlakeLYRICS FROM POETICAL SKETCHESMANUSCRIPT POEMS FROM FLAXMAN'S COPY OF POETICAL SKETCHESSONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE SHEWING THE TWO CONTRARY STATES OF THE HUMAN SOULPOEMS ADDED TO LATER COPIES OF SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCELYRICS FROM THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELLLYRICS FROM THE NOTEBOOKBALLADSNARRATIVE POEMSDESCRIPTIVE AND DISCURSIVE POETRYCOMIC AND SATIRICAL POETRYVERSE EPISTLES and DEDICATIONSBRIEF EPICDIFFUSE EPIC Explanatory Notes Index of Titles and First Lines