The Portable William Blake

Includes Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience complete; the best of the "prophetic books"; a selection of his other great lyrics; representative prose pieces from A Descriptive Catalogue, Public Address and A Vision of the Last Judgement; complete drawings for the Book of Job; and selected letters.

Editor's Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(58)

PROSPECTUS: TO THE PUBLIC

59

(641)

The Young Blake

From ``Poetical Sketches''

63

(14)

There is No Natural Religion and all Religions are One

There is No Natural Religion

77

(2)

All Religions are One

79

(4)

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Songs of Innocence

83

(16)

Songs of Experience

99

(19)

Additional Poems

118

(5)

Verses and Fragments

First Series, 1793-1799

123

(18)

Second Series, 1800-1810

141

(30)

Selections from the Letters

Editor's Note

171

(78)

The Prophetic Books

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

249

(18)

For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise

267

(12)

The Book of Thel

279

(8)

Visions of the Daughters of Albion

287

(13)

America

300

(15)

Europe

315

(13)

The First Book of Urizen

328

(20)

The Book of Ahania

348

(9)

The Book of Los

357

(7)

The Song of Los

364

(5)

Selections From ``The Four Zoas''

369

(42)

Selections From ``Milton''

411

(34)

Selections From ``Jerusalem''

445

(52)

On Art, Money, and the Age

From ``The Laocoon Group''

497

(4)

From ``A Descriptive Catalogue''

501

(31)

From ``Public Address''

532

(19)

On Homer's Poetry and on Virgil

551

(2)

Marginalia, I

553

(33)

Epigrams and Verses Concerning Sir Joshua Reynolds

586

(3)

Marginalia, II

589

(6)

Epigrams, Verses, and Fragments

595

(14)

The Old Blake

Fragments

609

(1)

The Everlasting Gospel

610

(15)

A Vision of the Book of Job Editor's Prefatory Note

625

(28)

The Engravings

629

(24)

A Vision of the Last Judgment

653

(22)

APPENDIX

From Crabb Robinson's Reminiscences

675

(20)

Blake Chronology

695

(5)

Bibliography

700

(3)

Aileen Ward

Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems

703

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