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William Blake (1757 - 1827)

One of the Romantic poets; wrote "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience." Reportedly died singing.

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Criticism about William Blake

Blake

http://www.bartleby.com/221/index.html#9

This lengthy analysis of the author's life and work includes sections on "Early Career ", "Poetical Sketches", "Beginnings of Mysticism; Songs of Innocence and Thel", "Songs of Experience", "His mystical Christianity ", and "Blake and the Romantic Revival."

Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism, Bibliography

Author: J. P. R. Wallis

From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XI: English, The Period of the French Revolution

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T.S. Eliot on William Blake

http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw13.html

The text of T.S. Eliot's essay on William Blake from Eliot's "The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism." From Project Bartleby.

Contains: Criticism

Author: T. S. Eliot

Keywords: poets

 

The William Blake Archive: General and Subject Bibliographies

http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

General and subject bibliographies of printed works about Blake, including critical material and editions of Blake's writing.

Contains: Bibliography

Author: M. Eaves, R. Essick, J. Viscomi

From: The William Blake Archive

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Biographical sites about William Blake

William Blake

http://poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/116

Provides a brief biographical sketch of the poet, and the full text of several poems.

Contains: Sketch, Pictures, Bibliography, Webliography

Author: Academy of American Poets

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Other sites about William Blake

The William Blake Archive

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/

"A free site on the World Wide Web since 1996, the Blake Archive was conceived as an international public resource that would provide unified access to major works of visual and literary art that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility." A searchable site containing most of Blakes works. Includes images, texts, and a bibliography of reference works.

Contains: Pictures, Works List, Works Available, Bibliography

Author: M. Eaves, R. Essick, J. Viscomi

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The William Blake Page

http://members.aa.net/~urizen/blake_text.html

This site is devoted to the art works of the the great English Romantic poet, painter, engraver and printer: William Blake. Contains the complete text and color plates of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the first half Songs of Innocence, and the second half of the Songs of Experience. The images are scanned and can be slow to load.

Contains: mailto:urizen@aa.net, Pictures, Sketch

Author: Richard Record

Keywords: "The Tyger," "Songs of Experience," "Songs of Innocence"