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Informationen zum Autor WILLIAM BLAKE was born in London in 1757. He was educated at home and then worked as an apprentice to the engraver James Basire before joining the Royal Academy in 1779. In 1782 he married Catherine Boucher, and a year later began his career as a poet when he published Poetical Sketches. This was followed by Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794), which he also designed and engraved. His other major literary works include The Book of Thel (1789), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1793), Milton (1804–8), and Jerusalem (1804–20). He produced many paintings and engravings during his lifetime. Blake died in 1827. ALFRED KAZIN was born in Brooklyn in 1915. His first book of criticism, On Native Grounds (1942), was a groundbreaking study of American literature that changed radically our way of looking at it, and established him overnight as a major figure. In a series of books of his own since then, and in many critically edited texts of classic American literary works, he established himself as our preeminent man of letters. He taught widely at Harvard, Smith, Amherst, Hunter College, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and elsewhere. In 1996 he received from the Truman Capote Literary Trust its first Lifetime Achievement Award in Literary Criticism (in memory of Newton Arvin). He died in 1998. Klappentext The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"—including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Abion, America, The Book of Urizen, and The Four Zoas—and from other works of poetry and prose, as well as the complete drawings for The Book of Job. Zusammenfassung A collection of the poetry, prose, and art of the English mystic, accompanied by a biographical sketch. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Acknowledgments Introduction Prospectus: To the Public I. The Young Blake From "Poetical Sketches" II. There Is No Natural Religion and All Religions Are One There Is No Natural Religion All Religions Are One III. Songs of Innocence and Of Experience Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience Additional Poems IV. Verses and Fragments First Series, 1793-1799 Second Series, 1800-1810 V. Selections from the Letters Editor's Note VI. The Prophetic Books The Marriage of Heaven and Hell For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise The Book of Thel Visions of the Daughters of Albion America Europe The First Book of Urizen The Book of Ahania The Book of Los The Song of Los Selections from "The Four Zoas" Selections from "Milton" Selections from "Jerusalem" VII. On Art, Money, and the Age From "The Laocoön Group" From "A Descriptive Catalogue" From "Public Address" On Homer's Poetry and On Virgil Marginalia, I Epigrams and Verses Concerning Sir Joshua Reynolds Marginalia, II Epigrams, Verses, and Fragments VIII. The Old Blake Fragments The Everlasting Gospel A Vision of the Book of Job Editor's Prefatory Note The Engravings A Vision of the Last Judgment Appendix From Crabb Robinson's Reminiscences Blake Chronology Bibliography by Aileen Ward Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems ...
