William Blake

<strong>To see a World in a Grain of Sand</strong><br>And a Heaven in a Wild Flower<br>Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And Eternity in an hour <p/>William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics of his era he is now recognised as a major contributor to the Romantic Movement. <p/>This edition presents Blake's poems in their literary categories and genres to which they belong: his much-loved lyrics ballads comic and satirical verse descriptive and discursive poems verse epistles and finally his remarkable 'prophetic' poems including the whole of his two diffuse epics <em>Milton</em> and <em>Jerusalem</em>. <p/>Blake's poetry is intellectually challenging as well as formally inventive and this edition has a substantial critical introduction which places his ideas in the contemporary context of the Enlightenment and the artistic reaction against its key assumptions.<br>