Books : Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions)
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by: William Blake
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780393924985
ISBN: 039392498X
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 628
Publication Date: November 19, 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 237286
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Product Description:
This generous selection from Blake's poems, prose, notebooks, marginalia, and letters is accompanied by many of the poet's illuminations for his own works, some in full color. The editors have modified Blake's original spelling and punctuation for greater accessibility.
Almost all of Blake's published writings are here, as well as most of the best shorter poems that remained in manuscript at his death, and much of his most energetic prose. Of Blake's Major epics, Milton is printed in full, in its longest version; Jerusalem is represented by selections amounting to one-third of the complete poem; and The Four Zoas by briefer excerpts. All the other poetic works are presented complete.
'Criticism' includes contemporary responses by Coleridge, Lamb, John Thomas Smith, Frederick Tatham, Henry Crabb Robinson, and Samuel Palmer. Modern critical essays are by T. S. Eliot, Northrop Frye, Jean Hagstrum, Robert F. Gleckner, Irene Tayler, Martin K. Nurmi, Martin Price, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom, and E. J. Rose.
Maps, a Chronology of Blake's life and times, and a Bibliography of Blake studies are also included.
About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.
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Rating: - Very solid edition of Blake's works
William Blake is one of those soaring pioneers of the human imagination whose visions and their scope make you feel rather humble at times. His works are quite diverse and his output during his life very considerable. Blake's longer poems, such as 'Jerusalem' or the 'Four Zoas', would easily make large books of their own in any edition of his works.
This Norton's edition contains selections from several of Blake's major works, including his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, ... Read More
Rating:  - Very good text for introducing Blake to students
This is a book is quite good as most Norton Critical Editions are. It has a lot of what is needed by students for a course on Blake or, more likely, a course that spends part of a term on Blake.
It has some biographical material and some maps of England and London at the time Blake lived. There are also a good helping of black and white as well as color plates of Blake's illuminated works. The color plates are only good - the color is not produced beautifully. The student will only get ... Read More
Rating: - Blake's Poetry and Designs
Nice book, but too bad its front picture cover is defaced by Norton's double-layer of big gold stickers with high-tack adhesive that makes them impossible to remove without adhesive remaining on the cover.
Rating: - Come and see a world in a grain of sand . . .
This is absolutely the best compendium of Blake's work which
articualtes an outstanding range of his vision. This
edition acknowledges the poetry and color paintings of a
consumate craftsman of the imagination on high quality,
acid free paper and is nylon stitched and bound in
signatures to last a lifetime. Books are rarely made this
way but the Norton edition is a beautiful rendering of
the first, and perhaps, primary British Romantic poet.
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