William Blake

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William Blake

By: William Blake

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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.” —from “Auguries of Innocence”

At the end of his life, William Blake gave up hope of being widely understood, but the twentieth century brought his work a new and intense interest and acclaim. A poet, artist, and mystic, Blake declared that “I must Create a System or be enslav’d by another Man’s.” And create he did.

Included in this collection are well-known poems such as “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright” and “A Poison Tree,” longer poems such as “The Everlasting Gospel,” an assortment of epigrams and short satire, and Blake’s principal prose work, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.”

(P)1992 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Critic reviews

“Blake’s poetry is sexual grand opera of instability, anguish, and resentment.”

(Camille Paglia, bestselling author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson)

“One of the most extraordinary persons of the age.”

(Charles Lamb)

“[A] man of Genius.”

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

“A glorious luminary…a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors.”

(William Rossetti, nineteenth century scholar)

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Always enjoy a good poetry book. However, the voice reading is too much. Personally I would rather read than listen to certain works.