Books By William Blake
List of 5 best books written by William Blake. Check out the booklist.
1. The Complete Poetry of William Blake
A visionary of eighteen-century English society, William Blake produced a huge collection of poetry, mythology, satires, political pieces, and prophetic works, in addition to his famous etchings and engravings. Although rejected as a madman during his lifetime for claims of hearing voices and later having visions, Blake has achieved notoriety as an innovative and extraordinarily imaginative artist.
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2. Selected Poems: Blake
Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth or the corruption caused by mankind, his writings depict a world in which spirits dominate and the mind is the gateway to Heaven.
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3. Poems
Blake’s explosive lyrical genius is here represented by the full text of ‘Songs of Innocence’ and ‘Songs of Experience’, plus a wide range of marvellous short poems unpublished in his lifetime. In addition there is a selection from the Prophetic Books in which the poet develops his own story of creation – alternately crazy and magnificent and from his dramatic and didactic poems and prose writings which reveal Blake as a major poet of the Romantic movement.
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4. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and Experience is one of the best-loved poetry collections of all time, an innovative and groundbreaking experiment in which Blake intertwined text and image to dazzling effect. The volume, published sometimes as two separate collections, juxtaposes the innocent world of childhood with the corrupt and repressed one of adults, and includes such favourites as ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ and ‘The Tyger’.
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5. The Selected Poems of William Blake
William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary poets. This volume contains many of his writings, including: ” songs of innocence;, ” songs of experience;, ” the marriage of heaven and hell”, and a selection from the prophetic books.
