Author:William Blake

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William Blake (1757–1827)

See biography, media, quotes. An English poet, painter, and printmaker. The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

[edit] Works

• Poetical Sketches 1769-1777 (publ. 1783)
• then She bore Pale desire…
• An Island in the Moon (unfinished c.1787)
• Songs of Innocence 1789
  • Introduction
  • The Shepherd
  • The Echoing 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
• Tiriel
• There is no Natural Religion 1788
• All Religions are One 1788
• The Book of Thel (1789)
• To Nobodaddy
• The French Revolution unpublished (1791)
• Prospectus to the Public 1793
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Between 1790 & 1793)
  • Proverbs of Hell
  • of the Gates
  • To The Accuser who is The God of This World
• Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
• The Gates of Paradise 1793
• America a Prophecy (1793)
  • Preludium
  • A Prophecy
  • Finis
• Europe a Prophecy (1794)
  • Preludium
  • A Prophecy
• The Book of Urizen (1794)
• Songs of Experience 1794
  • Introduction
  • Earth's Answer
  • The Clod and 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, Sunflower
  • The Lily
  • The Garden of Love
  • The Little Vagabond
  • London
  • The Human Abstract
  • Infant Sorrow
  • A Poison Tree
  • A Little Boy Lost
  • A Little Girl Lost
  • A Divine Image
  • A Cradle Song
  • The Schoolboy
  • To Tirzah
  • The Voice of the Ancient Bard
• The Book of Ahania (1795)
• The Book of Los (1795)
• The Song of Los (1795)
• Vala or The Four Zoas (1797 - 1803)
• Notebook (c.1791-3, c.1802-4)
• A Father's Memoirs of his Child, 1805 (as illustrator)
• Descriptive Catalogue (1809)
• Sibylline Leaves. On Homer's poetry, On Virgil. 1818
• Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion 1804 - 1820
  • To the Jews
• Milton, a Poem in 2 Books. 1804 - 1809 (1821)
  • Preface, including the verse known as Jerusalem
  • Book the First
  • Book the Second
• A Vision of the Last Judgment
• The Everlasting Gospel
• Letters of William Blake
• Songs and Ballads
  • The Ballads (or Pickering) Manuscript
    • The Mental Traveller
    • The Land of Dreams
    • The Crystal Cabinet
    • Auguries of Innocence
  • I Heard an Angel
  • "Silent Silent Night"
  • Eternity
  • I saw a chapel all of gold
  • "Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau"
  • The Smile

[edit] Works about Blake

• Biographical notice in Father's Memoirs of his Child p. xviii—xlii, by Malkin 1805
• Postscript of Letter to The Rev. H. F. Cary, 6 February 1818 by Coleridge
• Fragment of a Letter to Charles Augustus Tulk, 12 February 1818 by Coleridge
• Biography in 'Nollekens and His Times' J. T. Smith 1829
• "William Blake." The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Vol. 2. Cunningham. 1830. 140-79.
• Life of William Blake, 1863 (1880). Alexander Gilchrist, D G Rossetti, W M Rossetti, Anne Gilchrist
• The Poems of William Blake. Essay by James Thomson 1865
• William Blake, a critical essay by Swinburne. 1868
• Poetical sketches by William Blake: now first reprinted from the original edition of 1783. Edited by R H Shepherd. 1868
• The works of William Blake, poetic, symbolic and critical 3 volume edition, 1893. Edited by Ellis (introduction) and W. B. Yeats.
• William Blake, his life, character and genius 1893 A. T. Story
• Facsimile of the original outlines before colouring of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience 1893. Edited by Ellis (introduction)
• The prophetic books of William Blake, Milton, with an Introduction 1904. Edited by Maclagan, E.R.D.; Russell, A.G.B.
• The prophetic books of William Blake, Jerusalem, as above,
• The poetical works of William Blake a new and verbatim text ... edited and annotated by John Sampson 1905
• “Blake, William,” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John William, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Blake, William (1757-1827),” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.. Gilchrist, Anne
• "An Early Appreciation of William Blake". The Library, volume 5, series 3 by K. A. Esdaile 1914
• Blake in The Sacred Wood, by T.S. Eliot, 1920.
• The Sanity of William Blake 1920 by Greville MacDonald
• Bibliography of William Blake 1921 by Geoffrey Keynes
• The Writings of William Blake (complete edition) 3 volumes, 1925. by Geoffrey Keynes

[edit] Links

• William Blake in Wikilivres

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