Collected Poems

by William Blake, William Butler Yeats (Editor)

Overview

William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world.

This selection was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats, who had previously been one of the pioneer editors of Blake's prophetic books. Yeats, one of the few poets whose work could be compared with that of Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings. There is no better way to encounter the work of one poetic genius than as it is presented by another, and Yeats understood Blake in a way few others did.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415289856
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/11/2002
Series:	Routledge Classics
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

William Blake (1757-1827). Artist, poet, visionary and radical.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). One of the most significant poets of the modern age.

Table of Contents

	Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition	xi
	Introduction	xviii
	Poetical Sketches
	To Spring	3
	To Summer	3
	To Autumn	4
	To Winter	5
	To the Evening Star	5
	To Morning	6
	Song.--How Sweet I Roamed	6
	Song.--My Silks and Fine Array	7
	Song.--Love and Harmony Combine	7
	Song.--I Love the Jocund Dance	8
	Song.--Memory, Hither Come	9
	Mad Song.--The Wild Winds Weep	9
	Song.--Fresh from the Dewy Hill	10
	Song.--When Early Morn	11
	To the Muses	12
	An Imitation of Spenser	12
	Blind-Man's Buff	14
	King Edward the Third	16
	Songs of Innocence
	Introduction	47
	The Shepherd	47
	The Echoing Green	48
	The Lamb	49
	The Little Black Boy	49
	The Blossom	50
	The Chimney-Sweeper	51
	The Little Boy Lost	52
	The Little Boy Found	52
	Laughing Song	52
	A Cradle Song	53
	The Divine Image	54
	Holy Thursday	55
	Night	55
	Spring	57
	Nurse's Song	58
	Infant Joy	58
	A Dream	59
	On Another's Sorrow	59
	Songs of Experience
	Introduction	65
	Earth's Answer	65
	The Clod and the Pebble	66
	Holy Thursday	67
	The Little Girl Lost	67
	The Little Girl Found	69
	The Chimney-Sweeper	71
	Nurse's Song	71
	The Sick Rose	72
	The Fly	72
	The Angel	73
	The Tiger	73
	My Pretty Rose Tree	74
	Ah, Sunflower	75
	The Lily	75
	The Garden of Love	75
	The Little Vagabond	76
	London	76
	The Human Abstract	77
	Infant Sorrow	78
	A Poison Tree	78
	A Little Boy Lost	79
	A Little Girl Lost	79
	A Divine Image	81
	A Cradle Song	81
	The Schoolboy	82
	To Tirzah	83
	The Voice of the Ancient Bard	83
	Ideas of Good and Evil
	Daybreak	87
	The Wild Flower's Song	87
	Auguries of Innocence	88
	Young Love	88
	The Birds	88
	The Land of Dreams	89
	To Mr. Butts	90
	To My Dear Friend, Mrs. Anna Flaxman	92
	The Pilgrim	93
	Proverbs	93
	The Gates of Paradise	97
	A Song of Sorrow	100
	In a Myrtle Shade	100
	Freedom and Captivity	100
	The Two Thrones	101
	The Two Kinds of Riches	102
	Smile and Frown	102
	Night and Day	103
	The Two Songs	103
	Thames and Ohio	104
	The Defiled Sanctuary	104
	Scoffers	105
	The Grey Monk	105
	The Everlasting Gospel	107
	To Old Nobodaddy	116
	Barren Blossom	116
	Opportunity	117
	Love's Secret	117
	The Will and the Way	117
	Cupid	118
	The Thistles and Thorns	118
	The Golden Net	119
	The Crystal Cabinet	120
	The Mental Traveller	121
	Spectre and Emanation	124
	William Bond	127
	Mary	129
	Old English Hospitality	131
	Los the Terrible	131
	Dedication of the Designs to Blair's "Grave"	134
	For a Picture of the Last Judgment	135
	Couplets and Fragments	135
	The Prophetic Books
	Tiriel	143
	The Book of Thel	157
	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	162
	Visions of the Daughters of Albion	178
	Ahania	187
	From "Vala"	198
	The Song of Enitharmon	198
	Universal Humanity	199
	From "Jerusalem"	200
I.	To the Public	200
II.	To the Jews	201
III.	To the Deists	204
IV.	To the Christian	205
	From the Poem itself	208
	From "Milton"	211
	Prose Fragments
	On His Picture of the Canterbury Pilgrims	217
	Identity	230
	Minute Knowledge	231
	The Nature of a Last Judgment	232
	Why Men Enter Heaven	233
	Learning Without Imagination	233
	Form and Substance Are One	233
	Good and Evil	234
	The Clearness of Vision	234
	Outline in Art and Life	235
	The Trees of Knowledge and of Life	235
	There Is No Natural Religion, I, II	236
	Notes	241

Editorial Reviews

'It was like God had a human voice, with all the infinite tenderness and anciency and mortal gravity of a living Creator speaking to his son.' - Allen Ginsberg on the voice of William Blake

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