William Blake: Selected Poems

Name: William Blake: Selected Poems
Brand: William Blake
SKU: 9780198804468
Price: 9.07 GBP
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by William Blake

Title:

Author:

William Blake

Series (if any):

Oxford World's Classics

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

512 pages

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

ISBN-13:

9780198804468

EAN:

9780198804468

Classifications:

Poetry

Weight (g):

476

Dimensions (mm):

219 x 144 x 7

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£9.07

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Description

"To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd 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.