London: Oxford University Press, 1972. First edition thus, reprint edition. Hardcover. Full navy cloth with silver spine lettering. Fine in a fine laminated dust jacket, as issued. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 944 pages, with index and black-and-white illustrations. "Blake: Complete Writings with Variant Readings" presents the full corpus of William Blake s poetry and prose, with textual variants and editorial apparatus provided by Geoffrey Keynes, the preeminent Blake scholar of the twentieth century. William Blake (1757 1827) was an English poet, engraver, and visionary artist, whose works such as "Songs of Innocence and of Experience," "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," and "Jerusalem" profoundly shaped Romanticism and modern conceptions of the prophetic imagination. Geoffrey Keynes (1887 1982) was a surgeon, bibliographer, and collector, responsible for some of the most authoritative editions of Blake.

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Title

Blake: Complete Writings with Variant Reading

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication Date

1967

Language

English

ISBN 10

0192541579

ISBN 13

9780192541574

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

2nd Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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British and Irish Literature

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Contains almost all Blake's substantive variants with the exception of some in the exceptionally complex manuscript of Vala, or the Four Zoas.

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"An edition of Blake edited with extraordinary attention to detail. Essential."--Norman Weinstein, Boise State University

"For students and scholars alike Sir Geoffrey's edition of the Complete Writings remains the most readily accessible of all reliable collections of Blake."--George Mills Harper, Florida State University

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