William Blake (Phoenix Hardback Poetry)

William Blake (Phoenix Hardback Poetry)

by William Blake (Author), Peter Butter (Editor)

Synopsis

William Blake (1757-1827) was born in London, the son of a Dissenter. He learned drawing and engraving, and later became a painter. He married in 1782, published his first poems in 1783, and, despite poverty, wrote and illustrated his own works. Songs of Innocence and of Experience appeared in 1794.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 01 May 2003

ISBN 10: 0753816555
ISBN 13: 9780753816554
Book Overview: The best of William Blake's poems in a beautiful new gift edition

Author Bio
Peter Butter, formerly Regius Professor of English at Glasgow University, has written widely on Romantic, Victorian and modern poetry, especially on Blake, Shelley and Edwin Muir.