Ancient of days : selected poetry of William Blake

Regarded by a contemporary as a "brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature," William Blake is today recognized as a major poet and artist. This collection of carefully chosen poems reveals the lyricism, mystical vision and consummate craftsmanship that have earned the poet his preeminent place with both critics and the general public. 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. Cover 1 The fine print 2 Title page 3 Contents 4 The Angel 8 The Tyger 9 The Garden of Love 10 The Little Vagabond 11 A Poison Tree 12 A Little Boy Lost 13 Divine Image 14 I Saw A Monk Of Charlemaine 15 To The Queen 17 I Saw A Chapel All Of Gold 18 Auguries of Innocence 19 The Everlasting Gospel 24 An Epitaph 33 Introduction 5 Index 36 CoolZone 37 Author Facts 37 The Romantics 38 Blake On The Web 41 Bluffer's Guide 42 Is This The End? 44