Love Poems

В этом юбилейном издании, приуроченном к 250-летию со дня рождения великого английского поэта и художника, впервые в России знаменитый поэтический диптих Блейка «Песни Неведения и Познания» сопровождается полным сводом графических листов, сделанных самим автором. Эти иллюстрации в значительной степени дополняют и проясняют поэтический текст. Помимо этого в издании использованы фрагменты других живописных и графических произведений У. Блейка. Все стихи цикла представлены в двух и более...

William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin, W.B.Yeats, and more recently beat poet Allen Ginsberg and the ‘flower power’ generation. He is one of England's most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies and subvert ‘the mind-forged manacles’ of restriction. This volume contains many of his...

'How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?' A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience'. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales,...

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience includes some of the visionary poet's finest and best-loved poems such as `The Lamb', `The Chimney-Sweeper' and `The Tiger'. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has a foreword by Peter Harness. Blake's work is instantly...

A comprehensive selection of the poet’s work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the distinguished poet and critic Kathleen Raine expounds Blake’s esoteric theory and shows how it helped to create a poetry which is unlike any other. Angry, passionate, radiant, realistic and mystical by turns, illuminating a vision of the whole cosmos, these pages of verse retain all their power to move and excite. The text of this edition was corrected...

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...