William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

William Blake (1757-1827), a visionary poet who was also a painter and engraver, was one of the most individual poets of any age. This newest volume in the best selling Longman Annotated Texts series, is a new anthology of William Blake poetry. Each work, including individual songs, has an introduction describing a range of critical opinion and the annotation is the most detailed of any single-volume Blake. This comprehensive selection includes complete texts of all Blake's best known work: the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Book of Thel, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, America, the book of Urizen, and Laocoon. All Blake's significant lyric poems are included, and there are generous selections from The Four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem and The Everlasting Gospel. Those intersted in the poetry of William Blake. Also available in Hardcover 0-582-30740-6.