Tracy Chevalier

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

Presents a sweeping and romantic tale set against the historical backdrop of William Blake's London.

Burning Bright

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William Blake

W. H. Stevenson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

This selection makes an excellent introduction to the poetry of William Blake (1757-1827). It ranges from his early lyrics, including the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, to the restless visions of his late prophetic books. A monumental genius and inventor, on his own in the history of poetry as Leonardo is in that of painting, Blake's great gift to his readers - through his war against tyranny, his active belief in the supremacy of human imagination - is to extend dramatically our sense of the everyday world.

Selected Poetry: William Blake

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Massachusetts

Burning Bright 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

Historical fiction novel following poet William Blake in 1790s London. #poet #williamblake #historical

South Carolina

#hardcover #historical #williamblake #poet 

New Jersey

Blake's Human Form Divine

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1953 Black’s Readers Service. The volume is in great condition. No cover damage besides very slight shelf wear. No annotations or signatures.

New Mexico

The Works of William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

#hardcover #fiction #historical #poet #williamblake 

New York

No. 13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, 1792. Poct, artist, and printer William Blake-local eccentric and political radical-works anonymously amidst the raucous din of a reeming, jittery Lon-don. Across the Channel, revolution is imploding in France. Nearby, the renowned Astleys Circus is rehearsing its upcoming show, and next door the Kellaway family, recently arrived from the countryside, is moving in. Maggie Butterfield, the streetwise daughter of a local rogue, is looking for trouble—or at least a friend. When she and young Jem Kellaway are drawn into Blake's spell, the chance meeting of three unusual souls sets the stage for an impassioned journey. Jem and Maggie spark the imagination of the poet, influencing one of the greatest and most mystical works in English literature, Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Burning Bright evokes the full pageantry of Georgian London: its circus spectacles, mustard fac-tories, pubs and bawdy songs, the grandeur of Westminster Abbey and the secrets of Cut-Throat Lane. Behind these lie the greater movements of an era: the influence of a nearby revolution, the mustering of forces loyal to the Crown, and the agonies of being an independent thinker in an age suspicious of dissent.
As she did in the bestselling Girl With a Pearl Ear-ring, Chevalier brilliantly captures an era and a sense of place, at the same time deftly evoking an artist's vision. Overflowing with energy, enterprise, and the power of creation, Burning Bright brings us a vivid story of the unpredictable, exhilarating passage toward adulthood.

Pennsylvania

Dave Morice

An Animated Anthology

Poetry Comics

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

West Virginia

This elegantly designed chapbook collects several dozen poems by the world's greatest poets on nighttime, dreams, and rest. Reflective and meditative, they are the perfect way to end the day and prepare for the night ahead. 

Poems for Nighttime

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There's some writing on the front page. 
No tears or dog-eared pages. 
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Features 104 of Blake's poems: "A Song of Liberty," "The Argument," "Proverbs of Hell," "The Mental Traveller," "The Land of Dreams," "To the Evening Star" and many more.

Blake's Selected Poems

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Hampshire

"A Treasury of Favorite Poems celebrates the rich poetic legacy of America and England with more than 400 poems that span more than four centuries. The poets represented are acknowledged as among the worlds greatest: William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and more than fifty others. In addition to a generous selection of Shakespeares sonnets, this volume includes the complete text of William Blakes Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and such familiar classics as Samuel Taylor Coleridges "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Edgar Allan Poes "The Raven," Matthew Arnolds "Dover Beach," Ralph Waldo Emersons "Concord Hymn," Henry Wadsworth Longfellows "Paul Reveres Ride," Edna St. Vincent Millays "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver," and Robert Frosts "The Road Not Taken." There are poems here to suit all moods and interests: love poems from Christopher Marlowe and Andrew Marvell; meditative poems including John Miltons sonnet on his blindness and Thomas Grays "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard"; politically charged poems such as Percy Bysshe Shelleys "Ozymandias" and William Butler Yeats "Easter, 1916"; nonsense verse from Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll; poems of place such as Carl Sandburgs "Chicago" and Walt Whitmans "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"; and poems of passion including Emily Brontèes "No coward soul is mine" and selections from Elizabeth Barrett Brownings Sonnets from the Portuguese. There are even celebrations of the Christmas holiday in Clement Clarke Moores "A Visit from St. Nicholas" and of Americas national pastime in Ernest Thayers whimsical "Casey at the Bat." For anyone who admires achievements in the poetic form and the skill with which poets capture in memorable phrases the emotions and experiences that speak to every reader, A Treasury of Favorite Poems is a bountiful collection of some of the worlds best-loved and most popular poetry"--Dust jacket.

A Treasury of Favorite Poems

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#williamblake #biography #leodamrosch #illustrated #art #literature 

The Imaginative World of William Blake

In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of his life

William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experience--social, political, philosophical, religious, erotic, and aesthetic. He believed that we live in the midst of Eternity here and now, and that if we could open our consciousness to the fullness of being, it would be like experiencing a sunrise that never ends.
 
Following Blake's life from beginning to end, acclaimed biographer Leo Damrosch draws extensively on Blake's poems, his paintings, and his etchings and engravings to offer this generously illustrated account of Blake the man and his vision of our world. The author's goal is to inspire the reader with the passion he has for his subject, achieving the imaginative response that Blake himself sought to excite. The book is an invitation to understanding and enjoyment, an invitation to appreciate Blake's imaginative world and, in so doing, to open the doors of our perception.

Eternity's Sunrise

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Vintage first edition from 1981 illustrated by the wonderful duo of Alice and Martin Provensen. Dust jacket has wear, please see photos for reference.

Arizona

A Visit To William Blake's Inn

Virginia

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

A Study of William Blake

Fearful Symmetry (Vintage 1969)

A stain is on the spine and the outer edges of the pages have yellowed. 

Lovely poems. There is an index of poets and first lines. 

Poet’s Gold 

Some loosening of covers, the rest of the pages are in good shape, ex library.  Viking 1946.

Kentucky

Portable Blake

Duncan Wu

Some underlining and note taking from previous owner.

English

An Anthology

Romanticism

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Publication in 1928, twenty poems by William Blake. Beautifully illustrated.

Washington

Selected and Illustrated by Pamela Bianco

The Land of Dreams, twenty poems by William Blake (Rare 1928)

Minor wear and tear. Has writing throughout the book.

Minnesota

The Poems of Coleridge

Some wear around the corners and cover. Yellowing.


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Blake's Human Form Divine

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The Works of William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

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Burning Bright

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Burning Bright

Dave Morice

Poetry Comics

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Poems for Nighttime

William Blake

Blake's Selected Poems

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A Treasury of Favorite Poems

Leo Damrosch

Eternity's Sunrise

Nancy Willard and Alice and Martin Provensen

A Visit To William Blake's Inn

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A Treasury of Favorite Poems

Northrop Frye

Fearful Symmetry (Vintage 1969)

David Ross

Poet’s Gold

William Blake

Portable Blake

Duncan Wu

Romanticism

William Blake

The Land of Dreams, twenty poems by William Blake (Rare 1928)

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The Poems of Coleridge

Robert N Essick

William Blake at the Huntington Book Abrams 1994