Poetry and Prose of William Blake William Blake Edited and Introduction by Northrop Frye

Publisher: The Modern Library, New York Random House"; Edition:First Edition Year: 1953 Description: NF, 475 pp.; The Modern Library Random House First Edition 1953; William Blake was an English artist and poet celebrated more in the Modern Era than during his own lifetime. His unique style has earned him a reputaion as a visionary and a prophet as well as the beginning of the Romantic Movement in Art in Great Britain. He was pro American and French Revolution and associated with Wordsworth and Thomas Paine. His chief works include Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Book of Thel, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem. Blake was born in London on Nov. 28, 1757 and died in London on Aug. 12, 1827. The book is bound in green cloth with black and gold accents. Light stains on head edge; penciled notes on some pages; NF price clipped mylar protected dj, minor chip at spine head. Author: William Blake Edited and Introduction by Northrop Frye