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William Blake Selected Poems - Oxford Worlds Classics
William Blake (author), Nicholas Shrimpton (editor)
Paperback (25 Jan 2019)


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour


William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verses in the English language. Deeply committed to the visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics of his era, he is now recognized as a major contributor to the Romantic Movement.

This edition presents Blakes poems in their literary categories and genres to which they belong: his much-loved lyrics, ballads, comic and satirical verse, descriptive and discursive poems, verse epistles, and, finally, his remarkable prophetic poems, including the whole of his two diffuse epics, Milton and Jerusalem.

Blakes poetry is intellectually challenging as well as formally inventive, and this edition has a substantial critical introduction that places his ideas in the contemporary context of the Enlightenment and the artistic reaction against its key assumptions.


Product details

Format Paperback | 512 pages
Dimensions 129 x 196 x 23mm | 352g
Publication date 01 Apr 2019
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition New edition
Edition Statement New
ISBN10 0198804466
ISBN13 9780198804468
Bestsellers rank 483,288