Table Of ContentPreface to the Second EditionIntroductionList of IllustrationsList of Key TermsThe Texts of Blake's Poetry and DesignsILLUMINATED WORKSAll Religions Are One (1788)There Is No Natural Religion (1788)Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789-94)Songs of Innocence (1789)1. Introduction2. The Shepherd3. The Ecchoing Green4. The Lamb5. The Little Black Boy6. The Blossom7. The Chimney Sweeper8. The Little Boy Lost9. The Little Boy Found10. Laughing Song11. A Cradle Song12. The Divine Image13. Holy Thursday14. Night15. Spring16. Nurse's Song17. Infant Joy18. A Dream19. On Another's SorrowSongs of Experience (1793)1. Introduction2. Earth's Answer3. The Clod & the Pebble4. Holy Thursday5. The Little Girl Lost6. The Little Girl Found7. The Chimney Sweeper8. Nurse's Song9. The Sick Rose10. The Fly11. The Angel12. The Tyger13. My Pretty Rose Tree14. Ah! Sun-Flower15. The Lilly16. The Garden of Love17. The Little Vagabond18. London19. The Human Abstract20. Infant Sorrow21. A Poison Tree22. A Little Boy Lost23. A Little Girl Lost24. To Tirzah25. The School-Boy26. The Voice of the Ancient Bard27. A Divine ImageThe Book of Thel (1789)Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)America (1793)Europe (1794)The Song of Los (1794)1. Africa2. AsiaThe Book of Urizen (1794)The Book of Ahania (1794)The Book of Los (1794)Milton (1804; c. 1810-18)Jerusalem (1804; c. 1820)For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (1820)1. "Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice2. The Keys of the Gates3. To the Accuser who is The God of This WorldThe Ghost of Abel (1822)On Homer's Poetry / On Virgil (1822)Yah & His Two Sons Satan & Adam [The Laocoön] (1826)OTHER WRITINGSFrom Poetical Sketches (1783)1. To Spring2. To Summer3. To Autumn4. To Winter5. To the Evening Star6. Song ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field")7. Song ("Love and harmony combine")8. Mad Song9. To the Muses[An Island in the Moon] (1785)To the Public [Prospectus] (1793)From The Notebook (1787-1818)1. London (drafts c. 1792)2. The Tyger (drafts c. 1792)3. Infant Sorrow (drafts, date uncertain)4. Motto to the Songs of Innocence & of Experience5. A cradle song6. "I heard an Angel singing7. An ancient Proverb8. "Why should I care for the men of thames9. How to know Love From Deceit10. "O lapwing thou fliest around the heath11. "Thou hast a lap full of seed12. "The sword sung on the barren heath13. "If you trap the moment before its ripe14. Eternity15. "The Angel that presided oer my birth16. Morning17. "Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet18. An answer to the parson19. To God20. To Nobodaddy21. "Let the Brothels of Paris be opened22. "When Klopstock England defied23. "The Hebrew Nation did not write it24. "If it is True What the Prophets write25. "I saw a chapel all of gold26. Merlins prophecy27. Soft Snow28. "Abstinence sows sand all over29. "What is it men in women do require30. "In a wife I would desire31. "When a Man has Married a Wife32. "A Woman Scaly & a Man all Hairy33. "Her whole Life is an Epigram34. "An old maid early eer I knew35. The Fairy36. "Never pain to tell thy love37. "I asked a thief to steal me a peach38. My Spectre around me night & day39. [Related stanzas]40. "You don't believe I wont attempt to make ye41. "Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau42. "The only Man that eer I knew43. "The Caverns of the Grave Ive seen44. Riches45. "Since all the Riches of this World46. "I rose up in the dawn of day47. Blakes apology for his Catalogue[The "Auguries" (Pickering) Manuscript] (c. 1805)1. The Smile2. The Golden Net3. The Mental Traveller4. The Land of Dreams5. Mary6. The Crystal Cabinet7. The Gray Monk8. Auguries of Innocence9. Long John Brown & Little Mary Bell10. William BondFrom Vala / The Four Zoas (c. 1797-1805)From Exhibition of Paintings in Fresco [Advertisement] (1809)1. "In the last Battl
SynopsisThe 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., 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.