Poems

Author: William Blake

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  • : $29.95 AUD
  • : 9781101973141
  • : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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  • : 01 January 2016
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Barcode 9781101973141
9781101973141

Description

William Blake is one of England's most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith brings together her personal favorites of Blake's poems, including the complete Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, to give a singular picture of this unique genius, whom she calls in her moving introduction "the spiritual ancestor" of generations of poets.