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Zusatztext "'Blake's most reliable historical and textual scholar' presents the work of the poet, artist and engraver (1757-1827); included are "The Lamb" ("Little Lamb who made thee"), "Never Pain to Tell They Love" ("?Love that never told can be?"), and "The Poison Tree" ("I was angry with my friend; / I told my wrath, my wrath did end")." Informationen zum Autor Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, William Blake (1757-1827) was a visionary English poet, painter, and printmaker. His wide-ranging influence can be seen in genres from theology and literature to popular music and graphic novels. Klappentext "Blake was a visionary, rather than a mystic, and like D. H. Lawrence and Sigmund Freud he hoped to encourage us to exalt our human potential. Perhaps William Blake can best be termed an apocalyptic humanist, who urges us never to forget that all deities reside within the human breast."--Harold Bloom, from the new foreword Zusammenfassung A text of William Blake's poetry and prose. Inhaltsverzeichnis FOREWORD TO THE 2008 EDITION PREFACE I. THE WORKS IN ILLUMINATED PRINTING All Religions are One There is No Natural Religion a There is No Natural Religion b The Book of Thel Thel's Motto Songs of Innocence and of Experience Songs of Innocence Introduction The Shepherd The Ecchoing Green The Lamb The Little Black Boy The Blossom The Chimney Sweeper The Little Boy lost The Little Boy Found Laughing Song A Cradle Song The Divine Image Holy Thursday Night Spring Nurse's Song Infant Joy A Dream On Anothers Sorrow Songs of Experience Introduction Earth's Answer The Clod & the Pebble Holy Thursday The Little Girl Lost The Little Girl Found The Chimney Sweeper Nurse's Song The Sick Rose The Fly The Angel The Tyger My Pretty Rose Tree Ah! Sun-flower The Lilly The Garden of Love The Little Vagabond London The Human Abstract Infant Sorrow A Poison Tree A Little Boy Lost A Little Girl Lost To Tirzah The School Boy The Voice of the Ancient Bard A Divine Image For Children: The Gates of Paradise The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The Argument The Voice of the Devil A Memorable Fancy Proverbs of Hell A Memorable Fancy A Memorable Fancy A Memorable Fancy A Memorable Fancy A Song of Liberty Visions of the Daughters of Albion The Argument Visions America a Prophecy Preludium A Prophecy Canceled Plates Fragment "As when a dream of Thiralatha" Europe a Prophecy "Five windows light the cavern'd Man" Preludium A Prophecy The Song of Los Africa Asia The First Book of Urizen Preludium The Book of Ahania The Book of Los Milton a Poem in 2 Books Preface "And did those feet in ancient time" Book the First Book the Second Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion Frontispiece To the Public Chap: 1 To the Jews "The fields from Islington to Marybone" Chap: 2 To the Deists "I saw a Monk of Charlemaine" Chap: 3 To the Christians "I give you the end of a golden string" "I stood among my valleys of the south" "England! awake!" Chap: 4 For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise Prologue "Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice" Frontispiece The Keys of the Gates Epilogue To The Accuser who is The God of This World On Homers Poetry On Virgil The Ghost of Abel The Laocoon
