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The Complete Poems
One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical "Songs of Innocence" and their counterpoint "Experience" - which juxtapose poems such as "The Lamb and The Tyger", and "The Blossom and The Sick Rose" - to highly elabor...more
Mass Market Paperbound, 1072 pages
Published
March 30th 1978
by Penguin Books
(first published 1977)
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Blake is my favorite poet, and thus picking this up for a dollar at the Friends Of The Library sale was seven kinds of sweet.
I'm not a huge Poetry person, mostly because I have much use for an art form that (in modern poetry at least) is designed to conceal it's meaning. That's why I like the Romantics, they're not afraid to say it. And what they lose in subtlety they more then make up for in sheer language.
Plus the subject matter is always much more interesting in Roma...more
I'm not a huge Poetry person, mostly because I have much use for an art form that (in modern poetry at least) is designed to conceal it's meaning. That's why I like the Romantics, they're not afraid to say it. And what they lose in subtlety they more then make up for in sheer language.
Plus the subject matter is always much more interesting in Roma...more
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I doubt I will ever have read Blake enough (and this nice, thick book in particular) to ever be able to say that I have fully "read" him. Blake is like nothing I have ever read, nor could I describe the experience I have reading him to that of any other poet. It seems at times I'm reading a myth instead of a Romantic poet (which, perhaps, would make him happy to hear). Fun wouldn't be the word...maybe captivated? Overtaken? Fascinated to momentary fulfillment? Well, at least as m...more
I heard an Angel singing
When the day was springing,
'Mercy, Pity, Peace
Is the world's release.'
Thus he sung all day
Over the new mown hay,
Till the sun went down
And haycocks looked brown.
I heard a Devil curse
Over the heath and the furze,
'Mercy could be no more,
If there was nobody poor,
And pity no more could be,
If all were as happy as we.'
At his curse the sun went down,
And the heavens gave a frown.
Do...more
When the day was springing,
'Mercy, Pity, Peace
Is the world's release.'
Thus he sung all day
Over the new mown hay,
Till the sun went down
And haycocks looked brown.
I heard a Devil curse
Over the heath and the furze,
'Mercy could be no more,
If there was nobody poor,
And pity no more could be,
If all were as happy as we.'
At his curse the sun went down,
And the heavens gave a frown.
Do...more
I myself enjoy writing poetry, and although I have a passion for it, many poets do not appeal to me. William Blake is onec of those poets that certainly does. Many poetry authors tend to make their creative writing too complex, and often so subversive that it is difficult to grasp what they are trying to say. William Blake doesn't. His poems are extremely simple to read (so simple that they could almost be recognised as nursery rhymes), easy to understand, yet at the same time have a deep meanin...more
Must have for anyone who is curious about what infinity in a grain of sand means.
No poet has ever touched me more than William Blake.
If thought is life and strength and breath
And the want of thought is death
Then am I a happy fly
If I live
Or if I die
It is not every day that you find such gems.
And the want of thought is death
Then am I a happy fly
If I live
Or if I die
It is not every day that you find such gems.
my favorite poet. spend days delving into the subcontext of his works and you'll never see religious texts the same again.
"The mind that alters, alters all." Nobody pegged today's young people better then old Billy Blake.
well, my edition is not a penguin one..it's an old rare one...but so lovely! :) Preface by Sampson
my copy was from the 1800's--when I was a teen. wish i still had it-gave it away as a gift.
I am deeply interested in Blake and his works.
Odd, yet likeable.
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Blake is a madman.
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