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The Portable William Blake
[Paperback - 1977]
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Additional Category: Classics
Publisher: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 9780140150261 | Pages: 736
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A collection of the poetry, prose, and art of the English mystic, accompanied by a biographical sketch

William Blake (1757-1827) was the son of a London hosier. Having attended Henry Parr s drawing school, he was apprenticed as an engraver to the Society of Antiquaries in 1772 and later was admitted to teh Royal Academy. He married in 1782 and published his first work, Poetical Sketches, in 1783. The first of his "illuminated books" was Songs of Innocence in 1789. Blake s work over the next twenty years chart the refining of his ideas and beliefs, from a recognition of repression in Songs of Experience to his epic works Milton and Jerusalem whihc present a renewed vision of reconciliation between humanity.

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