Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull

William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin, W.B.Yeats, and more recently beat poet Allen Ginsberg and the 'flower power' generation. He is one of England's most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies and subvert 'the mind-forged manacles' of restriction. This volume contains many of his writings, including: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and a generous selection from the Prophetic Books including Milton and Jerusalem.

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POETICAL SKETCHES

To Spring
To Summer
To Autumn
To Winter
To the Evening Star
To Morning
Fair Elenor
Song
Song
Song
Song
Song
Mad Song
Song
Song
To the Muses
Gwin King of Norway
An Imitation of Spenser
Blind Man's Buff
King Edward the Third
Prologue, intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth
Prologue to King John
A War Song to Englishmen
The Couch of Death
Contemplation
Samson
Appendix to Poetical Sketches
Song by a Shepherd
Song by an Old Shepherd

AN ISLAND IN THE MOON

Songs from an Island in the Moon

SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE

SONGS OF INNOCENCE

Introduction
The Echoing Green
The Lamb
The Shepherd
Infany Joy
Laughing Song
Spring
A Cradle Song
Nurse's Song
Holy Thursday
The Blossom
The Chimney Sweeper
The Divine Image
Night
A Dream
On Another's Sorrow
The Little Boy Lost
The Little Boy Found

SONG OF EXPERIENCE

Introduction
Earth's Answer
Nurse's Song
The Fly
The Tiger
The Little Girl Lost
The Little Girl Found
The Clod and the Pebble
The Little Vagabond
Holy Thursday
A Poison Tree
The Angel
The Sick Rose
To Tirzah
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
My Pretty Rose-Tree
Ah! Sun-Flower
The Lily
The Garden of Love
A Little Boy Lost Infant Sorrow
The Schoolboy
London
A Little Girl Lost
The Chimney Sweeper
The Human Abstract

Appendix to
SONG OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE

A Divine Image

THE ROSSETTI MANUSCRIPT

Poems from THE ROSSETTI MANUSCRIPT, Part I

Never Seek to Tell Thy Love
I Laid Me Down Upon a Bank
I Saw a Chapel all of Gold
I Asked a Thief
I Heard an Angel Singing
A Cradle Song
Silent, Silent Night
I Fear'd the Fury of My Wind
Infant Sorrow
Why Should I Care for the Men of Thames
Thou Has a Lap Full of Seed
In a Myrtle Shade
To My Myrtle
To Nobodaddy
Are not the Joys of Morning Sweeter
The Wild Flower's Song
Day
The Fairy
Motto to Song of Innocence and Experience
Lafayette

Appendix to the Earlier Poems
THE ROSSETTI MANUSCRIPT


Poems from THE ROSSETTI MANUSCRIPT, Part II

My Spectre Around Me Night and Day
When Klopstock England Defied
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
I Saw a Monk of Chrlemaine
Morning
The Birds
You don't believe
If it is True what the Prophets Write
I Will Tell You What Joseph of Arimathea
Why Was Cupid a Boy
Now Art Has Lost Its Mental Charms
I Rose up at the Dawn of Day
The Caverns of the Grave I'Ve Seen

Addendum to the Later Poems in THE ROSSETTI MANUSCRIPT

To the Queen

Poems from THE ROSSETTI MANUSCRIPT, Part III

The Everlasting Gospel

THE PICKERING MANUSCRIPT

Poem from 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 and Little Mary Bell
Wiliam Bond

POEMS FROM LETTERS

To my Dearest Friend, John Flaxman, these lines
To my Dear Friend, Mrs Anna Flaxman
To Thomas Butts
To Mrs Butts
To Thomas Butts
To Thomas Butts

GNOMIC VERSES, EPIGRAMS AND SHORT SATIRICAL PIECES

Gnomic Verses
On art and Artists
On Friends and Foes
Miscellaneous Epigrams

TIRIEL

THE BOOK OF THEL

THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

The Argument
The Voice of the Devil
A Memorable Fancy
Proverbs of Hell
A Memorable Fancy
A Memorable Fancy
A Memorable Fancy
A Memorable Fancy

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

A SONG OF LIBERTY

VISIONS OF THE THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION

The Argument
Visions

AMERICA: A PROPHERCY

Preludium
A Prophecy

EUROPE: A PROPHERCY

Preludium
A Prophecy

THE BOOK OF URIZEN

THE SONG OF LOS

Africa
Asia

THE BOOK OF LOS

THE BOOK OF AHANIA

THE FOUR ZOAS

Selections from THE FOUR ZOAS

Introduction to Night the First
The Wanderer
A Vision of Eternity
The Song sung at the Feast of Los and Enitharmon
The Song of Enitharmon over Los
The Wail of Enion
Winter
The Woes of Urizen in the Dens of Urthona
Los in his Wrath
The War-Song of Orc
Vala's Going Forth
Urizen's Words of Wisdom
The Shade of Enitharmon
The Serpent Orc
The Last Judgement
The Lament of Albion
Accuser and Accused
The Tillage of Urizen
Song of the Sinless Soul
Vala in Lower Paradise

MILTON

Selections from MILTON

Preface
The Invocation
The Mills of Satan
The Sin of Leutha
Milton's Journey to Eternal Death
The Nature of Infinity
The Sea of Time and Space
The Mundane Shell
A River in Eden
Los
Swedenborg
Whitefield and Wesley
The Forge of Los
The Building of Time
The Heavens and the Earth
The Birds and the Flowers
Love and Jealousy
Reason and Imagination
The Song of the Shadowy Female

JERUSALEM

Selections from JERUSALEM

Introduction
The Reasoning Power
The Words of Los
The Builders of Golgonooza
A Vision of Albion
Punishment and Forgiveness
The Lament of Albion
Jerusalem
To the Jews
A Female Will
The Universal Family
Man's Spectre
The Fury of Los
Fourfold and Twofold Vision
The Remembrance of Sin
To the Deists
Albion's Spectre
The Holiness of Minute Particulars
A Vision of Joseph and Mary
Tirzah
The Warrior and the Daughter of Albion
Men and States
To the Christians
The Worship of God
The Cry of Los
Albion upon the Rock
The Wrath of God
The Divine Image
The End of the Song of Jerusalem

THE GATES OF PARADISE

Verses from THE GATES OF PARADISE, Part I

Prologue
The Keys
of the Gates
Epilogue

THE GHOST OF ABEL

NOTES TO THE TEXT

INDEX OF POEM TITLES

INDEX OF FIRST LINES