Selected Poetical Works: Blake

Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant in the figurative arts as in the field of poetry, his works are often difficult to categorize and, while constantly harking back to a classical and biblical past, they also look forward to the future and find resonance there - with authors such as T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and the Beat poets among his many modern admirers.

This volume includes a comprehensive selection of Blake’s poetry, from the early Songs of Innocence and Experience to his later prophetic works , covering almost four decades of poetical activity and displaying the author’s originality and independence of mind at their sparkling best.