One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience - which juxtapose poems such as 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger', and 'The Blossom' and
The Complete Poems
β Scribed by Whitman, Walt
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 405 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 110148764X
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β¦ Synopsis
From the joyful "Song of Myself" and "I Sing the Body Electric" to the elegiac "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," Whitman's art fuses oratory, journalism, and song in a vivid celebration of humanity. Containing all Whitman's known poetic work, this edition reprints the final, or "deathbed," edition of Leaves of Grass (1891{u2013}92). Earlier versions of many poems are also given, including the 1855 "Song of Myself."
β¦ Subjects
Complete
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