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
lesser-known Poetical Sketches to his celebrated Songs of Innocence and
of Experience and the "prophetic works" inspired by the French
Revolution, covering over two decades of poetical activity and
displaying the author's originality and independence of mind at their
sparkling best.