Selected Poems
- Author: William Blake
- ISBN: 9780543895066
- ISBN: 9780543895059
- Book details: This book is in English. This book contains 151 pages.
- Edition: Elibron Classics
- Book ID: 4122
William Blake was home-schooled as a boy, for his father feared his fiery temper would lead to a whipping at public school. This intensity of spirit remained within Blake throughout his life, coloring his politics, philosophy, religion, poetry, and artwork. Although his passion earned him little money or recognition (except from other young artists and writers) while he was alive, in death he was renowned as a poet, painter, and engraver, inspiring Modernist authors even as he was accepted as an archetypal English Romantic.