by William Blake, Peter Butter · W&N · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780460878005
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«William Blake» is a poetry anthology by William Blake, edited by Peter Butter, published by W&N in paperback (128 pages, in English).
The anthology spans William Blake's Romantic poetry: joyful and melancholic poems, simple and childlike alongside more complex and reflective ones, always shot through with a personal and prophetic vision. The famous passage from «Auguries of Innocence» quoted on the back cover reflects that gaze.
The back cover attributes the cover painting to Odilon Redon; the edition includes 12 color illustrations.
For the general reader wanting a first approach to Blake's poetry without critical apparatus.
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".
