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A collection of the poetry, prose, and art of the English mystic, accompanied by a biographical sketch
The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"—including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Abion, America, The Book of Urizen, and The Four Zoas—and from other works of poetry and prose, as well as the complete drawings for The Book of Job.
William Blake is one of England’s most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith brings together her personal favorites of Blake’s poems, including the complete Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, to give a singular picture of this unique genius, whom she calls in her moving introduction “the spiritual ancestor” of generations of poets.
The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"—including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Abion, America, The Book of Urizen, and The Four Zoas—and from other works of poetry and prose, as well as the complete drawings for The Book of Job.
A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize–nominated historian John Stauffer, The Portable Frederick Douglass includes the full range of Douglass’s works: the complete Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, as well as extracts from My Bondage and My Freedom and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass; The Heroic Slave, one of the first works of African American fiction; the brilliant speeches that launched his political career and that constitute the greatest oratory of the Civil War era; and his journalism, which ranges from cultural and political critique (including his early support for women’s equality) to law, history, philosophy, literature, art, and international affairs, including a never-before-published essay on Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture. The Portable Frederick Douglass is the latest addition in a series of African American classics curated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published in 2008, the series reflects a selection of great works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by African and African American authors introduced and annotated by leading scholars and acclaimed writers in new or updated editions for Penguin Classics. In his series essay, “What Is an African American Classic?” Gates provides a broader view of the canon of classics of African American literature available from Penguin Classics and beyond. Gates writes, “These texts reveal the human universal through the African American particular: all true art, all classics do this; this is what ‘art’ is, a revelation of that which makes each of us sublimely human, rendered in the minute details of the actions and thoughts and feelings of a compelling character embedded in a time and place.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
William Blake (1757 -1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His so-called prophetic works were said by 20th century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". William Blake was born on 28 November 1757 at 28 Broad Street (now Broadwick St.) in Soho, London. He was the third of seven children, two of whom died in infancy. Blake's father, James, was a hosier. He attended school only long enough to learn reading and writing, leaving at the age of ten, and was otherwise educated at home by his mother Catherine Blake. Even though the Blakes were English Dissenters, William was baptised on 11 December at St James's Church, Piccadilly, London. The Bible was an early and profound influence on Blake, and remained a source of inspiration throughout his life. In this book: Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience INTRODUCTION THE SHEPHERD THE ECHOING GREEN THE LAMB THE LITTLE BLACK BOY THE BLOSSOM THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER THE LITTLE BOY LOST THE LITTLE BOY FOUND LAUGHING SONG A CRADLE SONG THE DIVINE IMAGE HOLY THURSDAY NIGHT SPRING NURSE'S SONG INFANT JOY A DREAM ON ANOTHER'S SORROW SONGS OF EXPERIENCE INTRODUCTION EARTH'S ANSWER THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE HOLY THURSDAY THE LITTLE GIRL LOST THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER NURSE'S SONG THE SICK ROSE THE FLY THE ANGEL THE TIGER MY PRETTY ROSE TREE AH, SUNFLOWER THE LILY THE GARDEN OF LOVE THE LITTLE VAGABOND LONDON THE HUMAN ABSTRACT INFANT SORROW A POISON TREE A LITTLE BOY LOST A LITTLE GIRL LOST A DIVINE IMAGE A CRADLE SONG THE SCHOOLBOY TO TIRZAH THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD The book of Thel Poetical sketches To Spring To Summer To Autumn To Winter To the Evening Star To Morning Fair Eleanor There is no natural religion All Religions are One To Nobodaddy Proverbs of Hell Of the gates To the Accuser Who Is The God of This World Visions of the Daughters of Albion The Land of Dreams Satiric verses and epigrams from Blake's Notebook The marriage of Heaven and Hell The Argument THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL A MEMORABLE FANCY PROVERBS OF HELL A MEMORABLE FANCY A MEMORABLE FANCY A MEMORABLE FANCY A MEMORABLE FANCY A SONG OF LIBERTY CHORUS An Island in the Moon America a Prophecy The Book of Urizen The Book of Ahania The Book of Los The Song of Los Songs and Ballads A Cradle Song To my Mirtle Eternity To Nobodaddy Soft Snow Merlins prophecy Day The Fairy The Kid Morning The Birds Dedication to Blake's Illustrations to Blair's Grave, printed To the Queen From Blake's Notebook A Separate Manuscript With Blake's Illustrations to Gray's Poems To Mrs Ann Flaxman The Pickering Manuscript The Golden Net The Mental Traveller The Land of Dreams Mary The Crystal Cabinet The Grey Monk Auguries of Innocence Long John Brown & Little Mary Bell William Bond Mr Blake's Nursery Rhyme
Penetrating commentary on the Job story as a numinous, archetypal event, and as a paradigm for conflicts of duty that can lead to enhanced consciousness.