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The wonderful new novel from the much loved author of 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' and 'Falling Angels'. Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's new novel 'Burning Bright' sparkles with drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a... (more)

Songs of Innocence and Experience

by William Blake

Superb full-color facsimiles of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, based on Blake’s hand-written, hand-colored originals. 57 full-color plates.

A Visit to William Blake's Inn

Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

by Nancy Willard

A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn.

The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, New and Revised edition

The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, New and Revised edition

by William Blake

Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, if includes up-to-date work on variants, chronology of poems and critical commentary by Harold Bloom. An "Approved Edition" of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.

Blake: Selected Poetry (Poetry Library, Penguin)

Blake: Selected Poetry (Poetry Library, Penguin)

by William Blake

This introduction to the poetry of William Blake ranges from his early lyrics, such as "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience", to his later prophetic work.

"Songs of Innocence and of Experience" by William Blake (Master Guides S.)Alan Tomlinson

"Songs of Innocence and of Experience" by William Blake (Master Guides S.)

by Alan Tomlinson

Blake

by Peter Ackroyd

"MARVELOUS . . . A first-rate biography of an extraordinary man." -- The Wall Street Journal "SUPERB . . . Ackroyd writes with clarity and ease: His book is consistently intelligent, entertaining and affectionate. One closes its pages full of admiration for Blake and eager to study his pictures and read his poetry. . . . Ackroyd emphasizes Blake the visionary Londoner, like Turner or Dickens, and convincingly... (more)

The Selected Poems of William Blake (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

The Selected Poems of William Blake (Wordsworth Poetry Library)

by William Blake

William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin, W.B.Yeats, and more recently beat poet Allen Ginsberg and the 'flower power' generation. He is one of England's most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies and subvert 'the... (more)

The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

A poet, painter, and engraver, William Blake died in 1827 in obscurity. Yet he has become one of the most anthologized writers in English and one of the most collected British artists. His urge to create masterpieces of revelation has left complex (and sometimes bizarre) works of written and visual art. The essays in this Companion and a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of Blake's terms identify... (more)

William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books

William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books

by William Blake

In his Illuminated Books, William Blake combined text and imagery on a single page in a way that had not been done since the Middle Ages. For Blake, religion and politics, intellect and emotion, mind and body were both unified and in conflict with each other: his work is expressive of his personal mythology, and his methods of conveying it were integral to its meaning. There is no comparison with reading books... (more)

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers for over three centuries. It is one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature and is a classic of the heroic Puritan tradition and a founding text in the development of the English novel. The story of Christian, whose pilgrimage takes him through the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, and the Delectable Mountains, is full of danger and adventure.... (more)

A Blake Dictionary, The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake (S. Foster Damon, With a New Index by Morris Eaves)

A Blake Dictionary, The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake (S. Foster Damon, With a New Index by Morris Eaves)

by S. Foster Damon

An indispensable guide to Blake's ideas and symbols is once again available in paper, with a new foreword and annotated bibliography

Converse in the Spirit: William Blake, Jacob Boehme, and the Creative SpiritKevin Fischer

Converse in the Spirit: William Blake, Jacob Boehme, and the Creative Spirit

by Kevin Fischer

Converse in the Spirit is a comparative study of the writings of William Blake and the German visionary philosopher Jacob Boehme. While exploring the influence of Boehme on the poet, it focuses on the relationship between creativity, imagination, and spirituality. Blake and Boehme shared an unorthodox and radical view of the spiritual, rejecting all conventional, literal views of an overseeing God in His Heaven.... (more)

Angel of Apocalypse: Blake's Idea of MiltonJoseph Anthony Wittreich

Angel of Apocalypse: Blake's Idea of Milton

by Joseph Anthony Wittreich

Because I love you: Poems of love (Granger poetry library)

Because I love you: Poems of love (Granger poetry library)

by Anna E Mack

The Poems of William Blake

by William Blake

Large format for easy reading. Includes two collection of poems entitled 'Songs of Experience and Innocence' and 'The Book of Thel' from the famous poet and artist.

William Blake

by Peter Davies

Peter Davies provides the first clear and concise general introduction to the notoriously enigmatic force of Blake's extraordinary life and literary output. This critical study candidly points to what is readily accessible and then to what is less clear but of higher interest. He analyses and presents what is of greatest value in Blake's work.