num_pages: 656
description: The Second Edition of this revered Norton Critical Edition is the most comprehensive introduction to Blake’s poetry and thought available. In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial representations to Blake’s verse. Biographical context is provided through dozens of excerpts from Blake’s notebook, letters, marginalia, and other writings. “Criticism” offers twenty wide-ranging commentaries by writers from Blake’s contemporaries to present-day critics, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Northrop Frye, Allen Ginsberg, Morris Eaves, Harold Bloom, Alicia Ostriker, John Mee, Saree Makdisi, and Julia Wright. A section on Textual Technicalities, a Chronology of Blake’s life and work, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are also included.
language: English
title: Blake's Poetry and Designs
titlecomplete: Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Editions)
genres: Art, 18th Century, Poetry, Literature, Romanticism, Classics, Anthologies, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, 19th Century
ratings_count: 2062
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company