SERIES: Great Poets, Alma Classics24th January 2020 • £7.99 978-1-84749-821-2288 pp • PBSubject: DCFRights: World English

DESCRIPTION:

Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant in the figurative arts as in the field of poetry, his works are often difficult to categorize and, while constantly harking back to a classical and biblical past, they also look forward to the future and find resonance there – with authors such as T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and the Beat poets among his many modern admirers.

This volume includes a comprehensive selection of Blake’s poetry, from the early Songs of Innocence and Experience to his later “prophetic works”, covering almost four decades of poetical activity and displaying the author’s originality and independence of mind at their sparkling best.

SELLING POINTS:

• New edition of Blake’s poetry, part of Alma’s Great Poets collection

• A comprehensive volume, fully annotated

• Ideal for students

NEw Book INfoRmATIoNALmA CLASSICSSelected Poems by william Blake

TO PLACE YOUR ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT:macmillan Distribution Ltd, Cromwell Place, Hampshire International Business Park, Lime Tree way, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG24 8YJ

Tel: 01256 302 692 or fax: 01256 812 521

FOR SALES ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London wC1B 3DP

Tel: 0207 631 5600 or fax: 0207 631 5800

For more information about Alma Classics, please visit : www.almabooks.com

ABoUT THE AUTHoR:Born in London, william Blake (1757–1827) wrote poetry and worked as a painter and printmaker. His works went largely unrecognized during his lifetime, but have since come to be appreciated as among the most important to be produced in the Romantic Age.

IN THE GREAT PoETS CoLLECTIoN: