Poetry for Young People: William Blake

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William Blake's exuberant poems are easy to read and understand but full of profound thought and rich imagery. This beautifully illustrated edition contains all of Blake's best known and best loved works, including "The Tyger, "Little Boy Lost," and other selections from his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, as well as samples of his later, even more powerful visionary poetry. Together they reveal an amazing insight into human nature that has captivated the hearts and minds of readers young and old for generations.

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Overview

William Blake's exuberant poems are easy to read and understand but full of profound thought and rich imagery. This beautifully illustrated edition contains all of Blake's best known and best loved works, including "The Tyger, "Little Boy Lost," and other selections from his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, as well as samples of his later, even more powerful visionary poetry. Together they reveal an amazing insight into human nature that has captivated the hearts and minds of readers young and old for generations.

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Editorial Reviews

Children's Literature
It is an ambitious task indeed to bring the profound poetry of Blake to the eyes and ears of young people. Drawing on Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience," Maynard has chosen works with deceptively simple words that often have a deeper core and deal with the emotions of love, hate, and lust, all with spiritual overtones. The "Tyger Tyger burning bright…" is here along with "Little Lamb who made thee?" in all their majesty and innocence that many young readers will enjoy. But "Little Boy Lost" who is executed, the "Poison Tree" in which the speaker rejoices that his enemy has eaten the poison fruit, and "The Chimney Sweep" who decries his hard life and longs for death to reconcile him to a pastoral existence may be too harsh for today's children, who will need adult input for meaning and appreciation. The final selection from Blake's later life includes excerpts from his more visionary poems, such as "Auguries of Innocence" and "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." There is an excellent summary of Blake's life that lays the foundation for his writing. Stunning artwork breathes life into the poems and celebrates each poem perfectly. Audience appreciation is limited and this book will be best used in a teaching environment.
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Gr 5-9
Packaging Blake for this audience is no small challenge. The book begins with a heroic attempt to explain some of his themes and philosophy in a four-page introduction. Maynard speaks of the poet with insight, eloquence, and obvious admiration, but his comments are more likely to be appreciated by adults than by children. He prefaces each poem with explanatory comments that are also thought-provoking and illuminating. They are mostly age-appropriate, but at times they go beyond the intellectual range of middle schoolers. Most of the selections are from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience . Maynard does not shy away from the fact that many of them have strong Christian images or deal with harsh social themes. The artwork is well matched to the tone of the poems. Cimatoribus's illustrations are at the same time childlike and surreal. The simplified shapes of the figures contrast with the rich, textured colors and reflect the complex nature of the poetry. As a whole, this work does an admirable job of presenting Blake to young people.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780806936475
  • Publisher: Sterling Publishing
  • Publication date: 4/1/2007
  • Pages: 48
  • Sales rank: 673,868
  • Age range: 8 - 14 Years
  • Lexile: NPL (what's this?)
  • Series: Poetry for Young People Series
  • Product dimensions: 8.80 (w) x 10.10 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

William Blake (1757—1827) was a British poet, painter, engraver, and visionary mystic who proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the eighteenth century.
G. E. Bentley, Jr., has taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Toronto and is an authority on Blake and his world.
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