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NEW Trade Paperback: Second New & Revised Edition (Orig. 1988) Twenty-Fifth printing (c. 2022). * 5.96" x 6.16" x 2.04", 1.28 kg, xxviii+994, 1022 pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: An "Approved Edition" of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association: Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, if includes up-to-date work on variants, chronology of poems & critical commentary by Harold Bloom. * ABOUT THE POET: WILLIAM BLAKE was born in London in 1757. He was educated at home & then worked as an apprentice to the engraver James Basire before joining the Royal Academy in 1779. In 1782 he married Catherine Boucher, & a year later began his career as a poet when he published "Poetical Sketches". This was followed by "Songs of Innocence" (1789) & "Songs of Experience" (1794), which he also designed & engraved. His other major literary works include "The Book of Thel" (1789), "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" (c. 1793), "Milton" (1804–8), & "Jerusalem" (1804–20). He produced many paintings & engravings during his lifetime. Blake died in 1827. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: DAVID V. ERDMAN was an American literary critic, editor, & Professor Emeritus of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor Erdman established his reputation as a William Blake scholar. Erdman is the author of "Blake: Prophet against Empire", "The Poems of William Blake", "The Illuminated Blake: All of William Blake's Illuminated Works with a Plate-by-Plate Commentary", and more. HAROLD BLOOM was a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University & a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than 40 books include "The Anxiety of Influence", "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human", "The Western Canon", & "The American Religion". He was a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, & the recipient of many awards & honorary degrees, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Belles Lettres & Criticism, the Catalonia International Prize, & the Alfonso Reyes International Prize of Mexico. He lived in New Haven, Connecticut, & in New York City. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for an additional cost-determined fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at fees determined by most recent international postal rate increases.…