Description:
This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of William Blake (1757-1827). The edition features a selection of Blake's poetry, illuminated poetry, and prose, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes.
Review Quotes: "The latest in a long string of excellent editions is Peter Otto's William Blake: Selected Writings. Students of Blake are fortunate to be alive right now. It staggers the imagination to recognize the abundance of editions, as well as supplementary resources, available now. ...Otto also provides a chronology providing details of Blake's life, and the composition and publication of his works. All points taken into consideration, this effort raises the bar on all other student and classroom options and will offer advanced readers much to ruminate upon as well." -- Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
"William Blake is as impressive as an (almost complete) anthology as it is as a critical edition, and it is destined to be an indispensable companion for a new generation of Blakean readers." -- Sarah Haggarty, Romanticism"An attractive, generous, and useful volume, and better than any rival selection of Blake's poetry. It was also sorely needed, as Otto observes: "the picture we now have of Blake's life and work is so different from those drawn in the 1970s and 1980s (when the most important modern selected editions of Blake's work were first conceived) that it has become necessary to introduce him again." -- David Womersley, Studies in English Literature