William Blake was a poet, painter, engraver, and mystic--a combination that makes his works compelling and unforgettable. Read the works of William Blake, and don't forget to study the spectacular illustrations. Read more about the works of William Blake.
1. Blake's Poetry and Designs
by William Blake, Mary Lynn Johnson, and John Ernest Grant. Norton. From the publisher: "Almost all of Blake’s published writings are here, as well as most of the best shorter poems that remained in manuscript at his death, and much of his most energetic prose. Of Blake's Major epics, Milton is printed in full, in its longest version; 'Jerusalem' is represented by selections amounting to one-third of the complete poem; and 'The Four Zoas' by briefer excerpts."
2. Selected Poetry: William Blake
by William Blake. Oxford University Press. From the publisher: "This new edition of Blake's verse, presented in chronological order, encompasses Blake's entire career, from his early 'Poetical Sketches' and 'There is No Natural Religion' through his best known work 'Songs of Innocence,'... to his later works... Representing the full range of Blake's accomplishements as a poet, this outstanding volume highlights the extraordinarily diverse achievments of his remarkable poetic oeuvre."3. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
by William Blake and David V. Erdman. University of California Press. From the publisher: "Since it was first published in 1865, David V. Erdman's edition has been widely hailed as easily the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose... This newly revised edition includes the latest work on variants, deleted lines, arrangements of poems and dating, and eighty-two pages of critical commentary by Harold Bloom."4. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
by William Blake. Oxford University Press. From the publisher: "The text of each poem is given in letterpress on the page facing the color plate, and a brief commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes on each poem follows. It is printed on paper especially manufactured to match the tint of that used by Blake."5. Collected Poems
by William Blake, and W.B. Yeats (Editor). Routledge. From the publisher: "This selection of Blake's work was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats. Yeats, one of the few poets comparable to Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings."6. Blake's Selected Poems
by William Blake. Dover. This book offers 104 of Blake's poems, including: "A Song of Liberty," "The Argument," "Proverbs of Hell," "The Mental Traveller," "The Land of Dreams," "To the Evening Star" and many more.7. William Blake: Selected Poems and Prose
by William Blake, and David Fuller (Editor). Longman. From the publisher: "William Blake (1757-1827), a visionary poet who was also a painter and engraver, was one of the most individual poets of any age. This newest volume in the best selling Longman Annotated Texts series, is a new anthology of William Blake poetry. Each work, including individual songs, has an introduction describing a range of critical opinion and the annotation is the most detailed of any single-volume Blake."8. William Blake
by William Blake. Phoenix Press. From the publisher: "Both as poet and painter, William Blake created uncompromising, highly original art. He was strongly influenced by the spiritual: he claimed to have seen angels, and to have spoken with the many supernatural beings who populated his verses and visual images."9. A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake
by by Morris Eaves and S. Foster Damon. University Press of New England. From the publisher: "William Blake, poet, artist, and mystic, created a vast multidimensional universe through his verse and art. Spun from a fabric of symbolism and populated by a host of complex characters, Blake's comprehensive world has provided endless inspiration to subsequent generations."