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Blake, the Complete Poems: Longman Annotated English Poets

Editat de W. H. Stevenson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2007
Blake is undoubtedly one of the greatest lyricists in English poetry, yet his work is often complex and obscure. Many readers will be unfamiliar with the various political, social, religious, artistic, academic and literary issues that dominated Blake’s time. Alongside his involvement in radical politics Blake was fascinated by popular unscientific conjecture about the history of the British people after the Flood. Influenced by contemporary issues and long-forgotten fads, was often infused with an anger that was the product of personal arguments. Consequently, the style of Blake's narrative verse is not always easy to appreciate.

This, the second edition of the acclaimed Blake: The Complete Poems, remains unrivalled for the basic and detailed information it provides for interpreting the poems. The text is clear with a minimum of the 'turned' lines that make Blake's narratives so awkward to read.
 
This new edition will be illustrated in full colour with some of Blake’s visionary paintings and designs, in order to highlight to readers the full breadth of Blake’s genius. The inclusion of these plates sets this volume apart from all other editions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405832809
ISBN-10: 1405832800
Pagini: 929
Dimensiuni: 142 x 215 x 53 mm
Greutate: 1.19 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Longman Publishing Group
Seria Longman Annotated English Poets

Locul publicării:Harlow, United Kingdom

Cuprins

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements   viii
Note by the General Editor ix
Preface    xi
Chronological Table of the Life and Work of William Blake xv
Abbreviations  xxiii
POEMS
1 Poetical Sketches3
2 Poems written in a copy of Poetical Sketches 40
3 Songs from An Islandin the Moon  41
4 All Religions are One and There is No Natural Religion
5 Songs of Innocence    53
6 Tiriel 74
7 Thel   93
8 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell   101
9 The French Revolution 124
10   A Divine Image 143
11   Poems from the Notebook, c. 1791–2 143
12   Visions of the Daughters of Albion  172
13   America187
14   Songs of Experience    208
15   Europe   223
16   The Song of Los  241
17   The First Book of Urizen   248
18   The Book of Ahania    269
19   The Book of Los  278
20   Versus written with illustrations to Gray’s Poems 285
21   Verses written c. 1798–1802    286
22   Vala, or The Four Zoas 287
23   ‘When Klopstock Englanddefied’   469
24   Poems in letters (1800)   470
25   On the Virginity of the Virgin Mary and Joanna Southcott 474
26   Poems to Mr. & Mrs. Butts 475
27   Notebook drafts, c. 1804   478
28   Milton 487
29   The ‘PickeringManuscript’    580
30   To Tirzah    594
31   ‘A fairy skip’d’   595
32   ‘Grown old in love’   596
33   To the Queen   596
34   Miscellaneous Notebook Verses, c. 1807–9 597
35   Miscellaneous Verses, 1809–12    608
36   Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion 623
37   For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise 849
38   The Everlasting Gospel 853
39   The Ghost of Abel    869
Appendix: Doubtful and Spurious Attributions    873
Index of Titles and First Lines 876
Index to Notes  886
Index to Prose Quotations

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William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the great figures in literature, by turns poet, artist and visionary." "Profoundly libertarian in outlook, Blake's engagement with the issues of his day is well known and this - along with his own idiosyncratic concerns - flows through his poetry and his art. Like Milton before him, the prodigality of his allusions and references is little short of astonishing. Consequently, his longer visionary poems can challenge the modern reader, who will find in this avowedly open edition all they might need to interpret the poetry.

W. H. Stevenson's Blake is a masterpiece of scrupulous scholarship. It is, as the editor makes clear in his introduction, 'designed to be widely, and fluently, read' and this Third Edition incorporates many changes to further that aim. Many of the headnotes have been rewritten and the footnotes updated. The full texts of the early prose tracts, "All Religions are One" and "There is No Natural Religion," are included for the first time. In many instances, Blake's capitalisation has been restored, better to convey the expressive individuality of his writing. In addition, a full colour plate section contains a representation of Blake's most significant paintings and designs. As the 250th anniversary of his birth approaches, Blake has perhaps more readers than ever before; "Blake: ""The Complete Poems "will stand those readers, new and old, in good stead for many years to come.

W. H. Stevenson worked on the first edition while Professor of English at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he also conducted the only known performance in Nigeria of Donizetti's opera, 'l'elisir d'amore'. Later he was Full Professor at Boston University, USA, and head of the Department of English at Calabar, Nigeria. He has also taught at Leeds and Edinburgh Universities.


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