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Blake’s Poetry and Designs

Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Chronology
  • Map: Blake’s Britain
  • Map: Blake’s London, 1757-1827
  • Map: The Holy Land
  • The Texts of the Poems
  • List of Key Terms
  • POEMS AND PROPHECIES
  • From Poetical Sketches
    • To Spring
    • To Summer
    • To Autumn
    • To Winter
    • To the Evening Star
    • To Morning
    • Song: "How sweet I roam’d"
    • Song: "My silks and fine array"
    • Song: "Love and harmony combine"
    • Song: "I love the jocund dance"
    • Song: "Memory, hither come"
    • Mad Song
    • Song: "Fresh from the dewy hill"
    • Song: "When early morn walks forth"
    • To the Muses
    • Prologue: Intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward IV
    • Prologue to King John
    • A War Song to Englishmen
  • [Poems Written in a Copy of Poetical Sketches]
    • Song by a Shepherd
    • Song by an Old Shepherd
  • All Religions Are One (Illuminated Book)
  • There Is No Natural Religion (Illuminated Book)
  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Illuminated Book)
  • Songs of Innocence
    • Introduction
    • The Shepherd
    • The Ecchoing Green
    • The Lamb
    • The Little Black Boy
    • The Blossom
    • The Chimney Sweeper
    • The Little Boy Lost
    • The Little Boy Found
    • Laughing Song
    • A Cradle Song
    • The Divine Image
    • Holy Thursday
    • Night
    • Spring
    • Nurse’s Song
    • Infant Joy
    • A Dream
    • On Another’s Sorrow
  • Songs of Experience
    • Introduction
    • Earth’s Answer
    • The Clod & the Pebble
    • Holy Thursday
    • The Little Girl Lost
    • The Little Girl Found
    • The Chimney Sweeper
    • Nurse&s Song
    • The Sick Rose
    • The Fly
    • The Angel
    • The Tyger
    • My Pretty Rose Tree
    • Ah! Sun-Flower
    • The Lilly
    • The Garden of Love
    • The Little Vagabond
    • London
    • The Human Abstract
    • Infant Sorrow
    • A Poison Tree
    • A Little Boy Lost
    • A Little Girl Lost
    • To Tirzah
    • The School-Boy
    • The Voice of the Ancient Bard
    • A Divine Image
  • The Book of Thel (Illuminated Book)
  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Illuminated Book)
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Illuminated Book)
  • America: A Prophecy (Illuminated Book)
  • Europe: A Prophecy (Illuminated Book)
  • The Song of Los (Illuminated Book)
    • Africa
    • Asia
  • The Book of Urizen (Illuminated Book)
  • The Book of Ahania (Illuminated Book)
  • The Book of Los (Illuminated Book)
  • Poems from Blake’s Notebook
  • I. Working Drafts
    • London (Drafts ca. 1792)
    • London (Printed version, 1794)
    • The Tyger (Drafts, ca. 1792)
    • The Tyger (Printed Version, 1794)
    • Infant Sorrow (Drafts, of uncertain date)
    • Infant Sorrow (Printed Version, 1794)
  • II. A Projected Plate
    • "O lapwing thou fliest around the heath"
    • An answer to the parson
    • [Experiment]: "Thou hast a lap full of seed"
    • Riches
    • "If you trap the moment before its ripe"
  • III. Vision
    • Eternity
    • "Since all the Riches of this World"
    • To God
    • To Nobodaddy
    • "If it is True What the Prophets write"
    • "The Hebrew Nation did not write it"
    • "Some Men created for destruction come"
    • "You dont believe I wont attempt to make ye"
    • "Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau"
    • "I will tell you what Joseph of Arimathea"
    • Merlins prophecy
    • An ancient Proverb
    • "The sword sung on the barren heath"
    • "Why should I care for the men of thames"
    • "Who will exchange his own fire side"
    • "Let the Brothels of Paris be opened"
    • "Great Men & Fools do often me Inspire"
    • "He whole Life is an Epigram..."
    • "The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule"
    • Lacedemonian Instruction
    • Motto to the Songs of Innocence & of Experience
    • "Anger & Wrath my bosom rends"
    • "The Angel that presided oer my birth"
    • "I am no Homers Hero you all know"
    • "I heard an Angel singing"
    • "Terror in the house does roar"
    • "Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet"
    • "When Klopstock England defied"
    • Day
    • Morning
  • IV. Love: The Sexes
    • "What is it men in women do require"
    • "Abstinence sows sand all over"
    • "In a wife I should desire"
    • "When a Man has Married a Wife"
    • "A Woman Scaly & a Man all Hairy"
    • "Why was Cupid a Boy"
    • How to know Love from Deceit
    • "The look of love alarms"
    • "Soft deceit & Idleness"
    • "Silent Silent Night"
    • "Are not the joys of morning sweeter"
  • V. Love: Stories
    • The Fairy
    • "Never pain to tell they love"
    • "I feard the fury of my wind"
    • "I saw a chapel all of gold"
    • "I laid me down upon a bank"
    • "I asked a thief to steal me a peach"
    • Soft Snow
    • "An old maid early eer I knew"
    • "Grown old in Love from Seven Times Seven"
    • The Washer Womans Song
    • A cradle song
    • To my Mirtle
    • "My Spectre around me night & day"
    • [Related Stanzas]
    • The Birds
  • VI. Art and Artists
    • "Now Art has lost its mental Charms"
    • To the Queen
    • "The Caverns of the Grave Ive seen"
    • "I rose up in the dawn of day"
    • "You say their Pictures well Painted be"
    • Blakes apology for his Catalogue
    • English Encouragement of Art
    • "The only man that eer I knew"
    • "Madman I have been calld..."
  • The Pickering Manuscript
    • The Smile
    • The Golden Net
    • The Mental Traveller
    • The Land of Dreams
    • Mary
    • The Crystal Cabinet
    • The Grey Monk
    • Auguries of Innocence
    • Long John Brown & Little Mary Bell
    • William Bond
  • From The Four Zoas
  • Milton (Illuminated Book)
  • From Jerusalem (Illuminated Book)
  • The Ghost of Abel (Illuminated Book)
  • The Everlasting Gospel
    • "There is not one moral virtue..."
    • "If Moral Virtue was Christianity"
    • "What can this Gospel of Jesus be?"
    • "Was Jesus Born of a Virgin Pure"
    • "Was Jesus Humble..."
    • Was Jesus gentle..."
    • "Was Jesus Chaste..."
    • "The Vision of Christ that thou dost see"
  • To the Accuser who is The God of This World
  • Related Prose
  • An Island in the Moon
  • Prospectus: To the Public
  • From A Descriptive Catalogue and [An Advertisement]
  • From A Vision of the Last Judgment
  • A Public Address to the Chalcographic Society
  • The Laocoo!n (Yah and His Two Sons)
  • On Homer’s Poetry
  • On Virgil
  • Blake’s Marginalia
    • On John Casper Lavater, Aphorisms on Man (ca. 1789)
    • On Emanuel Swedenborg, The Wisdom of Angels, Concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1788)
    • On R. Watson, Bishop of Llandoff, An Apology for the Bible...addressed to Thomas Paine (1797)
    • On Francis Bacon, Essay Moral, Economical and Political (1797)
    • On Henry Boyd, A Translation of "The Inferno" in English Verse, with Historical Notes (1785)
    • On The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight, Edited by Edmund Malone (3 volumes) (1798)
    • On George Berkeley, Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflections (1744)
    • On William Wordsworth, Preface to The Excursion, Being A Portion of the Recluse, A Poem (1814)
    • On William Wordsworth, Poems: Including Lyrical Ballads, Vol. I - 1815)
    • On Robert John Thornton, The Lord’s Prayer, Newly Translated (1827)
  • Blake’s Letters
    • To the Reverend Dr. John Trusler, August 23, 1799
    • To William Hayley, May 6, 1800
    • To George Cumberland, July 2, 1800
    • To John Flaxman, September 12, 1800
    • To William Hayley, September 16, 1800
    • To Thomas Butts, September 23, 1800
    • To Thomas Butts, October 2, 1800
    • To Thomas Butts, January 10, 1802
    • To Thomas Butts, November 22, 1802 (second letter)
    • To James Blake, January 30, 1803
    • To Thomas Butts, April 25, 1803
    • To Thomas Butts, August 16, 1803
    • Blake’s Memorandum, August 1803
    • To William Hayley, October 7, 1802
    • To William Hayley, October 23, 1804
    • To William Hayler, December 11, 1805
    • To Dawson Turner, June 9, 1818
    • To George Cumberland, April 12, 1827
    • To Thomas Butts, April 25, 1803 (excerpt)
  • Criticisms
  • COMMENTS BY CONTEMPORARIES
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Letter to C.A. Tulk, February 12, 1818
    • Charles Lamb - Letter to Bernard Barton, May 15, 1824
    • John Thomas Smith - From Nollekens and his Times (1828)
    • Frederick Tatham - From "Life of Blake" (1832?)
    • Henry Crabb Robinson - From Reminiscences (1852)
    • Samuel Palmer - Letter to Alexander Gilchrist, August 23, 1855
  • TWENTIETH-CENTURY CRITICISM
    • T.S. Eliot - William Blake
    • Northrop Frye - Blake’s Treatment of the Archetype
    • Jean H. Hagstrum - [On Innocence and Experience]
    • Robert F. Gleckner - Point of View and Context in Blake’s Songs
    • Irene Tayler - The Woman Scaly
    • Martin K. Nurmi - [On The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]
    • Martin Price - The Standard of Energy
    • David V. Erdman - America: New Expanses
    • Harold Bloom - [On Milton]
    • E.J. Rose - The Symbolism of the Opened Center and Poetic Theory in Blake’s Jerusalem
  • Bibliography

    Index of Titles and First Lines

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