Blake: Complete Writings with Variant Reading

William Blake (author); Geoffrey Keynes (editor)

ISBN 10: 0192541579 / ISBN 13: 9780192541574

Published by Oxford University Press, 1967

About this Item

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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Bibliographic Details

• 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
• Seller catalogs:
  • British and Irish Literature

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Synopsis

With variant readings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

Review

"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 "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 "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 "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