{"product_id":"william-blake-william-blake-9780198804468","title":"William Blake: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\"To see a World in a Grain of Sand\u003cbr\u003eAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower\u003cbr\u003eHold Infinity in the palm of your hand\u003cbr\u003eAnd Eternity in an hour\"\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics of his era, he is now recognised as a major contributor to the Romantic Movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition presents Blake's poems in their literary categories and genres to which they belong: his much-loved lyrics, ballads, comic and satirical verse, descriptive and discursive poems, verse epistles, and, finally, his remarkable 'prophetic' poems, including the whole of his two diffuse epics, \u003cem\u003eMilton\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJerusalem\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlake's poetry is intellectually challenging as well as formally inventive, and this edition has a substantial critical introduction which places his ideas in the contemporary context of the Enlightenment and the artistic reaction against its key assumptions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Blake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198804466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198804468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.80d","brand":"William Blake","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046300610815,"sku":"9780198804468","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_08497da4-fb9e-4052-a161-2f603b1eae14.jpg?v=1684983794","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/william-blake-william-blake-9780198804468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}