Author(s): William Blake (selected by Peter Butter)

Poetry

The best of William Blake's poems in a beautiful gift edition William Blake (1757-1827) was born in London, the son of a Dissenter. He learned drawing and engraving, and later became a painter. he married in 1782, published his first poems on 1783, and despite poverty, wrote and illustrated his own works. Songs of Innocence and Experience appeared in 1794. About the Author: Peter Butter, formerly Regius Professor of English at Glasgow University, has written widely on Romantic, Victorian and modern poetry, especially on Blake, Shelly and Edwin Muir