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)
  • To Spring
  • To Summer
  • To Autumn
  • To Winter
  • To Morning
  • To the Evening Star
  • Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
  • Song: My silks and fine array
  • Mad Song
  • To the Muses
  • Prologue, intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth
• then She bore Pale desire…
• An Island in the Moon

• Songs of Innocence
  • 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

• Songs of Experience
  • 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

• Tiriel
• The Book of Thel (1789)
• To Nobodaddy
• Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
• Milton a Poem in 2 Books To Justify the Ways of God to Men (1804)
  • Preface to Milton: a Poem, including verse that became the lyrics for the hymn Jerusalem
  • Book the First
  • Book the Second
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Between 1790 & 1793)
  • Proverbs of Hell
• The Gates of Paradise
  • of the Gates
  • To the Accuser Who Is the God of This World
• 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
• America a Prophecy (1793)
  • Preludium
  • A Prophecy
  • Finis
• The Book of Urizen (1794)
• The Book of Ahania (1795)
• The Book of Los (1795)
• Notebook
• Vala or The Four Zoas (1797)
• Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804)
  • To the Jews

• There is no Natural Religion
• All Religions are One

[edit] Works about Blake

• Blake in The Sacred Wood, by T.S. Eliot
• "Blake, William", in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

[edit] Links

• William Blake in Wikilivres

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.