William Blake

David V. Erdman

Virginia Erdman

Regarded by a contemporary as a "brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature", William Blake (1757-1827) is today recognized as a major poet and artist. This collection of 104 carefully chosen poems reveals the lyricism, mystical vision and consummate craftsmanship that have earned the poet his preeminent place with both critics and the general public.

Blake's Selected Poems

A Selective and Critical Bibliography for 1980

The Romantic Movement

A Concordance to the Writings of William Blake

The Poems of William Blake

John E. Grant

The twenty contributors to this volume offer a new perspective on the relationship between Blake's poetry and his visionary forms. Their illustrated discussions explore and debate the nature of Blake's mixed art and the energetic interaction of text and design. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic

Reprints of the works of the English poet Blake which he wrote, illustrated, printed and published. Annotations interpret symbolism in the poetry and the paintings.

All of William Blake's Illuminated Works with a Plate-by-plate Commentary

The Illuminated Blake

An illustrated version of the folk song in which a fox travels many miles to get dinner for his wife and ten cubs.

This book presents William Blake's illuminated works enabling words and images to be read and seen as one. The accompanying text discusses the salient points of each plate, and directs attention to the poet's graphic symbolism.

DIVDefinitive study of strange symbolism Blake used to attack political tyranny of his time. "For our sense of Blake in his own times we are indebted to David Erdman more than anyone else."—Times Literary Supplement. Third revised edition. 32 black-and-white illus. /div

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