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Blake’s Poetry and Designs

Contents

  • New Preface to the Second Edition
  • New Introduction
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Key Terms
  • The Texts of Blake's Poetry and Designs
  • ILLUMINATED WORKS
  • All Religions Are One (1788)
  • There Is No Natural Religion (1788)
  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789-94)
  • Songs of Innocence (1789)
    • Introduction
    • The Shepherd
    • The Ecchoing Green
    • The Lamb
    • The Little Black Boy
    • The Blossom
    • The Chimney Sweeper
    • The Little Boy Lost
    • The Little Boy Found
    • Laughing Song
    • A Cradle Song
    • The Divine Image
    • Holy Thursday
    • Night
    • Spring
    • Nurse’s Song
    • Infant Joy
    • A Dream
    • On Another’s Sorrow
  • Songs of Experience (1793)
    • Introduction
    • Earth’s Answer
    • The Clod & the Pebble
    • Holy Thursday
    • The Little Girl Lost
    • The Little Girl Found
    • The Chimney Sweeper
    • Nurse’s Song
    • The Sick Rose
    • The Fly
    • The Angel
    • The Tyger
    • My Pretty Rose Tree
    • Ah! Sun-Flower
    • The Lilly
    • The Garden of Love
    • The Little Vagabond
    • London
    • The Human Abstract
    • Infant Sorrow
    • A Poison Tree
    • A Little Boy Lost
    • A Little Girl Lost
    • To Tirzah
    • The School-Boy
    • The Voice of the Ancient Bard
    • A Divine Image
  • The Book of Thel (1789)
  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
  • America (1793)
  • Europe (1794)
  • The Song of Los (1794)
    • Africa
    • Asia
  • The Book of Urizen (1794)
  • The Book of Ahania (1794)
  • The Book of Los (1794)
  • Milton (1804; c. 1810-18)
  • New Jerusalem (1804; c. 1820)
  • For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (1820)
    • New "Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice"
    • New The Keys of the Gates
    • To the Accuser who is The God of This World
  • The Ghost of Abel (1822)
  • On Homer’s Poetry / On Virgil (1822)
  • Yah & His Two Sons Satan & Adam [The Laocoön] (1826)
  • OTHER WRITINGS
  • From Poetical Sketches (1783)
    • To Spring
    • To Summer
    • To Autumn
    • To Winter
    • To the Evening Star
    • Song ("How sweet I roam’d from field to field")
    • Song ("Love and harmony combine")
    • Mad Song
    • To the Muses
  • [An Island in the Moon] (1785)
  • To the Public [Prospectus] (1793)
  • From The Notebook (1787-1818)
    • London (drafts c. 1792)
    • The Tyger (drafts c. 1792)
    • Infant Sorrow (drafts, date uncertain)
    • Motto to the Songs of Innocence & of Experience
    • A cradle song
    • "I heard an Angel singing"
    • An ancient Proverb
    • "Why should I care for the men of thames"
    • How to know Love From Deceit
    • "O lapwing thou fliest around the heath"
    • "Thou hast a lap full of seed"
    • "The sword sung on the barren heath"
    • "If you trap the moment before its ripe"
    • Eternity
    • "The Angel that presided oer my birth"
    • Morning
    • "Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet"
    • An answer to the parson
    • To God
    • To Nobodaddy
    • "Let the Brothels of Paris be opened"
    • "When Klopstock England defied"
    • "The Hebrew Nation did not write it"
    • "If it is True What the Prophets write"
    • "I saw a chapel all of gold"
    • Merlins prophecy
    • Soft Snow
    • "Abstinence sows sand all over"
    • "What is it men in women do require"
    • "In a wife I would desire"
    • "When a Man has Married a Wife"
    • "A Woman Scaly & a Man all Hairy"
    • "Her whole Life is an Epigram"
    • "An old maid early eer I knew"
    • The Fairy
    • "Never pain to tell thy love"
    • "I asked a thief to steal me a peach"
    • My Spectre around me night & day"
    • [Related stanzas]
    • "You don’t believe I wont attempt to make ye"
    • "Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau"
    • "The only Man that eer I knew"
    • "The Caverns of the Grave Ive seen"
    • Riches
    • "Since all the Riches of this World"
    • "I rose up in the dawn of day"
    • Blakes apology for his Catalogue
  • [The "Auguries" (Pickering) Manuscript] (c. 1805)
    • The Smile
    • The Golden Net
    • The Mental Traveller
    • The Land of Dreams
    • Mary
    • The Crystal Cabinet
    • The Gray Monk
    • Auguries of Innocence
    • Long John Brown & Little Mary Bell
    • William Bond
  • From Vala / The Four Zoas (c. 1797-1805)
  • From Exhibition of Paintings in Fresco [Advertisement] (1809)
    • New "In the last Battle that Arthur fought . . . "
    • The Invention of a Portable Fresco
  • From A Descriptive Catalogue (1809)
  • From [A Vision of the Last Judgment] (1810)
  • From [A Public Address to the Chalcographic Society] (1809-10)
  • [The Everlasting Gospel] (c. 1818)
  • From The Marginalia (1789-1827)
    • From On Lavater, Aphorisms on Man (1788)
    • From On Swedenborg, Wisdom of Angels (1788)
    • From On Watson, Apology for the Bible (1797)
    • From On Bacon, Essays (1798)
    • From On Dante, Inferno (1785; notes c. 1800)
    • From On Reynolds, Works (1798; notes c. 1800-9)
    • New From On Spurzheim, Observations on . . . Insanity (1817)
    • From On Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814; notes 1826)
    • From On Wordsworth, Poems (1814; notes 1826)
    • From On Thornton, Lord’s Prayer (1827)
  • From The Letters
    • To Trusler, 23 August 1799
  • From To Cumberland, 2 July 1800
  • New From To Cumberland, 1 September 1800
    • "Dear Generous Cumberland . . . "
  • To Flaxman, 12 September 1800
    • "I bless thee O Father of Heaven & Earth . . ."
  • New From To Flaxman, 21 September 1800
  • From To Butts, 2 October 1800
    • "To my Friend Butts I write . . ."
  • From To Butts, 22 November 1800
  • From To Butts, 22 November 1800 [second letter]
    • "With happiness stretchd across the hills . . . "
  • From To Butts, 10 January 180[3]
  • From To James Blake, 30 January 1803
  • From To Butts, 25 April 1803
  • New From To Butts, 6 July 1803
  • From To Butts, 16 August 1803
    • "O why was I born with a different face . . ."
  • [Blake’s Memorandum, August 1803]
  • From To Hayley, 7 October 1803
  • From To Hayley, 23 October 1804
  • From To Hayley, 11 December 1805
  • To Turner, 9 June 1818
  • To Cumberland, 12 April 1827
  • Criticism
  • Comments by Contemporaries
  • New Robert Hunt - From Mr Blake’s Exhibition (1809)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Blake’s Poems, Letter to C. A. Tulk [1818]
  • John Thomas Smith - From Nollekens and his Times (1828)
  • Frederick Tatham - From Life of Blake (?1832)
  • Henry Crabb Robinson - From Reminiscences (1853)
  • Samuel Palmer - Letter to Alexander Gilchrist (1855)
  • Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Perspectives
  • New Allen Ginsberg • [My Vision of Blake] (1966)
  • Northrop Frye • Blake’s Treatment of the Archetype (1951)
  • New W. J. T. Mitchell • Dangerous Blake (1982)
  • New Joseph Viscomi • [Blake’s Relief Etching Process: A Simplifed Account] (1983)
  • New Stephen C. Behrendt • [The ’Third Text’ of Blake’s Illuminated Books] (1999)
  • Martin K. Nurmi • [On The Marriage of Heaven and Hell] (1957)
  • New Alicia Ostriker • Desire Gratified and Ungratified (1982)
  • New Nelson Hilton • Some Polysemous Words in Blake (1983)
  • New Jon Mee • [Blake the Bricoleur] (1992)
  • New Saree Makdisi • Fierce Rushing: William Blake and the Cultural Politics of the 1790s (2003)
  • New Julia Wright • "How Different the World to Them": Revolutionary Heterogeneity and Alienation (2004)
  • New Morris Eaves • The Title-page of The Book of Urizen (1973)
  • Harold Bloom • [On the Theodicy of Blake’s Milton] (1963)
  • New Vincent Arthur De Luca • A Wall of Words: The Sublime as Text (1986)
  • Maps
  • Blake’s Britain
  • Blake’s Holy Land
  • Blake’s London
  • New Textual Technicalities
  • William Blake: A Chronology
  • Bibliography, with Index of Scholars and Critics
  • Index of Titles and First Lines

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