Blake: Complete Poetry And Prose
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Few literary figures in the English canon burn with the singular, visionary intensity of William Blake — poet, painter, and prophet — whose complete body of written work is gathered in this landmark edition. Blake: Complete Poetry and Prose, edited with scholarly precision by Geoffrey Keynes, presents the full sweep of Blake's creative genius, from the deceptively simple lyricism of Songs of Innocence and of Experience to the thunderous mythological architecture of the Prophetic Books, alongside his prose writings, annotations, and letters. This is not merely a collection but a total immersion into the mind of a man who stood entirely outside his age, constructing an elaborate personal mythology that challenged Church, State, and Reason with equal, blazing conviction. Keynes, the preeminent Blake scholar of the twentieth century, brings decades of meticulous textual scholarship to bear, producing an edition long regarded as the definitive standard for serious readers and academics alike. Blake's work occupies a singular position at the threshold between Romanticism and Symbolism, his language oscillating between childlike clarity and prophetic obscurity, his imagery dense with spiritual rebellion and cosmic drama. Whether encountering The Tyger for the first time or wrestling with the labyrinthine visions of Jerusalem, readers will find in this edition a complete testament to one of literature's most uncompromising and original minds — one that continues to unsettle, inspire, and astonish.
Author: William Blake (Edited By Geoffrey Keynes)
Format: Hardback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Few literary figures in the English canon burn with the singular, visionary intensity of William Blake — poet, painter, and prophet — whose complete body of written work is gathered in this landmark edition. Blake: Complete Poetry and Prose, edited with scholarly precision by Geoffrey Keynes, presents the full sweep of Blake's creative genius, from the deceptively simple lyricism of Songs of Innocence and of Experience to the thunderous mythological architecture of the Prophetic Books, alongside his prose writings, annotations, and letters. This is not merely a collection but a total immersion into the mind of a man who stood entirely outside his age, constructing an elaborate personal mythology that challenged Church, State, and Reason with equal, blazing conviction. Keynes, the preeminent Blake scholar of the twentieth century, brings decades of meticulous textual scholarship to bear, producing an edition long regarded as the definitive standard for serious readers and academics alike. Blake's work occupies a singular position at the threshold between Romanticism and Symbolism, his language oscillating between childlike clarity and prophetic obscurity, his imagery dense with spiritual rebellion and cosmic drama. Whether encountering The Tyger for the first time or wrestling with the labyrinthine visions of Jerusalem, readers will find in this edition a complete testament to one of literature's most uncompromising and original minds — one that continues to unsettle, inspire, and astonish.