Blake: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington [Hardcover]

These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content.Poems: Blakecontains a full selection of Blake's work, includingSongs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems fromThe Prophetic Books, and an index of first lines.In his prophetic books, William Blake (1757-1827) was a visionary who can be compared without blasphemy to the prophets of the Old Testament. In his life as a citizen of London, he was an unreconstructed revolutionary of the human spirit. And in the poems ofSongs of Innocence and of Experience,he was the purest and most penetration lyricist in the language. Among the great English poets, he was and remains the one unclassifiable original.DE