William Blake : selected works / edited by Peter Otto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Otto, Peter, editor.

Series:

21st-century Oxford authors

21st century Oxford authors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Blake, William.

Art and literature--England--History--19th century.

Art and literature.

England.

History.

Physical Description:

xlix, 802 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Oxford univ press, 2018.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of William Blake (1757-1827). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to explore Blake's poetry, illuminated poetry, and prose alongside selections from his letters, manuscripts, notebook, advertising pamphlets, marginalia, and works he printed in conventional letterpress.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: From Poetical Sketches (1783)

To Spring

To Summer

To Autumn

To Winter

To The Evening Star

To Morning

Fair Elenor

Song (`HOW sweet I roam'd')

Song (`MY silks and fine array')

Song (`LOVE and harmony combine')

Song (T LOVE the jocund dance')

Song (`MEMORY, hither come')

Mad Song

Song (`FRESH from the dewy hill')

Song (`WHEN early morn')

To The Muses

Gwin, King Of Norway

Prologue, intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth

Prologue to King John

[An Island In The Moon] (c.1785)

From Annotations (1788) to Lavater's Aphorisms On Man

All Religions Are One And There Is No Natural Religion (c.1788)

All Religions are One

There is No Natural Religion

From Annotations (c. 1789) to Swedenborg's Heaven And Hell

Songs Of Innocence (1789)

Introduction

The Shepherd

Infant Joy

On Another's Sorrow

The School Boy

Holy Thursday

Nurse's Song

Note continued: Laughing Song

The Little Black Boy

The Voice of the Ancient Bard

The Ecchoing Green

The Chimney Sweeper

The Divine Image

A Dream

The Little Girl Lost

The Little Girl Found

The Little Boy Lost

The Little Boy Found

A Cradle Song

Spring

The Blossom

The Lamb

Night

The Book Of Thel (1789)

From Annotations (C.1790) To Swedenborg's Divine Love And Divine Wisdom

From Annotations (C.1790) To Swedenborg's Divine Providence

The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell (1790)

Poems From The Notebook (c.1791-3)

(`Never pain to tell thy Love')

(`I laid me down upon a bank')

(`I saw a chapel all of gold')

(`I asked a thief to steal me a peach')

(`I heard an angel singing')

(`I feard the fury of my wind')

(`Why should I care for the men of thames')

(`Silent Silent Night')

(`O lapwing thou fliest around the heath')

(`Thou hast a lap full of seed')

In a Mirtle Shade

Note continued: To Nobodaddy

(`Are not the joys')

How to Know Love from Deceit

The Wild Flower's Song

Soft Snow

To My Mirtle

Merlin's Prophecy

Day

The Fairy

(`The sword sung on the barren heath')

(`Abstinence sows sand all over')

(`In a wife I would desire')

(`If you trap the moment before its ripe')

Lacedemonian Instruction

Riches

An Answer to the Parson

Motto to the Songs of Innocence and of Experience

(`An old maid early eer I knew')

Several Questions Answer'd

An Ancient Proverb

(`Let the Brothels of Paris be opened')

(`Who will exchange his own tire side')

Visions Of The Daughters Of Albion (1793)

America A Prophecy (1793)

To The Public [Prospectus] (1793)

From The Notebook [Subjects For `The History Of England, A Small Book Of Engravings'] (c. 1793)

For Children: The Gates Of Paradise (1793)

Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience (1794)

Songs of Innocence

Note continued: The Shepherd

Laughing Song

Songs of Experience

Earth's Answer

The Clod and the Pebble

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

Europe A Prophecy (1794)

The First Book Of Urizen (1794)

The Song Of Los (1795)

The Book Of Ahania (1795)

The Book Of Los (1795)

Note continued: From Vala Or The Four Zoas (1797-c. 1807)

From The Notebook (c. 1797-9)

(`When Klopstock England defied')

From Annotations (1798) To Watson's An Apology For The Bible

From Annotations (c. 1798) To Bacon's Essays

From Annotations (c. 1798-1809) To Reynolds' Works

Letters (1799-1800)

To the Reverend Dr Trusler, 16 August 1799

To the Reverend Dr Trusler, 23 August 1799

To George Cumberland, 26 August 1799

To William Hayley, 6 May 1800

To John Flaxman, 12 September 1800

From Catherine Blake to Anna Flaxman, 14 September 1800

To John Flaxman, 21 September 1800

To Thomas Butts, 2 October 1800

From Annotations (f. 1800) To Boyd's Translation Of The Inferno

Letters (1802-3)

To Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802

To Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802 (second letter)

To Thomas Butts, 25 April 1803

Memorandum In Refutation Of The . . . Complaint Of John Scholfield (1803)

Letters(1803-4)

Note continued: To Thomas Butts, 16 August 1803

To William Hay ley, 7 October 1803

To William Hayley, 23 October 1804

Poems From The Notebook (c.1803-4)

(`My Spectre around me night & day')

(`Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau')

Morning

The Birds

On the Virginity of the Virgin Mary and Johanna Southcott

Milton A Poem (c. 1804-11)

[The Pickering Manuscript] (c. 1805-7)

The Smile

The Golden Net

The Mental Traveller

The Land of Dreams

Mary

The Crystal Cabinet

The Grey Monk

Auguries of Innocence

Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell

William Bond

Poems From The Notebook (c. 1807-9)

(`Why was Cupid a Boy')

(`Now Art has lost its mental Charms')

(`The Caverns of the Grave Ive seen')

(`I rose up at the dawn of day')

(If I eer Grow to Mans Estate')

(`To God')

(`The Hebrew Nation did not write it')

Blake's Exhibition (1809)

Exhibition Of Paintings In Fresco [Advertisement]

Note continued: A Descriptive Catalogue [Advertisement]

A Descriptive Catalogue Of Pictures

From Jerusalem The Emanation Of The Giant Albion (1804-C. 1820)

From [A Vision Of The Last Judgment] (1810)

From [A Public Address To The Chalcographic Society] (c. 1810)

Europe, Title Page (Late Revisions c. 1815-20)

From Annotations (c.1818) To Spurzheim's Observations

Letters (1818)

To Dawson Turner, 9 June 1818

To Thomas Butts [?], c.1818

The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)

For The Sexes: The Gates Of Paradise (c.1820)

Annotations (c.1820) To Berkeley's Siris

On Homers Poetry And On Virgil (c.1822)

The Ghost Of Abel (1822)

From Annotations (1826) To Wordsworth's Preface To The Excursion

From Annotations (1826) To Wordsworth's Poems

[Jehovahjand His Two Sons Satan And Adam [Or, The Laocoon] (c. 1826-7)

Annotations (1827) To Thornton's The Lord `S Prayer

Letter (1827)

To George Cumberland, 12 April 1827.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199644233

9780199644230

OCLC:

1089445440

Publisher Number:

60002302382