Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative
and brilliant as a painter and draughtsman as in the field of poetry he created works that are
often difficult to categorize and that while harking back to a classical and biblical past
also look forward to the future - with authors such as T.S. Eliot Aldous Huxley and the Beat
poets among his many modern admirers.This volume includes an essential selection of Blake's
poetry from the lesser-known Poetical Sketches to his celebrated Songs of Innocence and of
Experience and the prophetic works inspired by the French Revolution covering over two decades
of poetical activity and displaying the author's originality and independence of mind at their
sparkling best.
