William Blake

The simple and beautiful eloquence of William Blake's poetry is exemplified here in "Songs of Innocence and of Experience." This collection of forty-six poems is actually two volumes in one. After first completing and publishing "Songs of Innocence" in 1789 Blake would, some five years later, add "Songs of Experience" …

Cristo ensinou que o homem se salva pela fé e pela ética; Swedenborg acrescentou a inteligência; Blake nos impõe três caminhos de salvação: o moral; o intelectual e o estético. Afirmou que o terceiro havia sido pregado por Cristo, já que cada parábola é um poema. Como Buda, cuja doutrina, de fato, era ignorada, …

William Blake is one of England's most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies. This volume contains his greatest writings and a generous selection from the Prophetic Books including Milton and Jerusalem.

This volume aims to present all Blake's verse, including scattered fragments and epigrams and also to provide as much annotation as is necessary to make the poetry accessible to the reader

The major poetic and prose works of Blake are accompanied by his illuminations and selected criticism.