Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blake, William
• Shrimpton, Nicholas[Herausgeber, Verfasser einer Einleitung]

Titel

Selected poems

Ist Teil von

• Oxford world's classics

Auflage

First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback

Ort / Verlag

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte als Nachdruck behandelte Auflagen
• '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 verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics of his era, he is now recognised as a major contributor to the Romantic Movement. This edition presents Blake's 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. Blake's poetry is intellectually challenging as well as formally inventive, and this edition has a substantial critical introduction which places his ideas in the contemporary context of the Enlightenment and the artistic reaction against its key assumptions.