Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Abbreviations
Note on Illustrations
Color
Black and White
Key Terms
Illuminated Works
ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE/THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (1788)
All Religions Are One
There Is No Natural Religion
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE (1789-94)
Songs of Innocence (1789)
Introduction
The Shepherd
The Ecchoing Green
The Lamb
The Little Black Boy
The Blossom
The Chimney Sweeper
The Little Boy Lost
The Little Boy Found
Laughing Song
A Cradle Song
The Divine Image
Holy Thursday
Night
Spring
Nurse's Song
Infant Joy
A Dream
On Anothers Sorrow
Songs of Experience (1793)
Introduction
Earth's Answer
The Clod & the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Little Girl Lost
The Little Girl Found
The Chimney Sweeper
Nurses Song
The Sick Rose
The Fly
The Angel
The Tyger
My Pretty Rose Tree
Ah! Sun-Flower
The Lilly
The Garden of Love
The Little Vagabond
London
The Human Abstract
Infant Sorrow
A Poison Tree
A Little Boy Lost
A Little Girl Lost
To Tirzah
The School Boy
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
THE BOOK OF THEL (1789)
VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION (1793)
THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL (1790)
AMERICA A PROPHECY (1793)
EUROPE A PROPHECY (1794)
THE SONG OF Los (1795)
Africa
Asia
THE BOOK OF URIZEN (1794)
THE BOOK OF AHANIA (1794)
THE BOOK OV Los (1795)
M·LTON: A POEM (1804; C. 1810--18)
JERUSALEM THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION (1804; C. 1821)
FOR THE SEXES: THE GATES OF PARADISE (1820)
THE GHOST OF ABEL (1822)
ON HOMER'S POETRY/ON VIRGIL (1822)
·[YAH] & HIS TWO SONS SATAN &ADAM [THE LAOCOON] (1826)
Other Writings
FROM POETICAL SKETCHES (1783)
To Spring
To Summer
To Autumn
To Winter
To the Evening Star
Song ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field")
Song ("Love and harmony combine")
Mad Song
To the Muses
[AN ISLAND IN THE MOON] (1785)
TO THE PUBLIC [PROSPECTUS] (1793)
FROM THE NOTEBOOK ( 1787--1818)
London (drafts c. 1792)
The Tyger (drafts c. 1792)
Infant Sorrow (drafts, date uncertain)
Motto to the Songs of Innocence & of Experience
A cradle song
["I heard an Angel singing"]
An ancient Proverb
["Why should I care for the men of thames"]
How to know Love from Deceit
["O lapwing thou fliest around the heath"]
["Thou hast a lap full of seed"]
["The sword sung on the barren heath"]
["If you trap the moment before its ripe"]
Eternity
["The Angel that presided oer my birth"]
Morning
["Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet"]
An answer to the parson
To God
To Nobodaddy
["Let the Brothels of Paris be opened"]
["When Klopstock England defied"]
["The Hebrew Nation did not write it"]
["If it is True What the Prophets write"]
["I saw a chapel all of gold"]
Merlins prophecy
Soft Snow
["Abstinence sows sand all over"]
["What is it men in women do require"]
["In a wife I would desire"]
["When a Man has Married a Wife he finds out whether"]
["A Woman Scaly & a Man all Hairy"]
["Her whole Life is an Epigram smack smooth & nobly pend"]
["An old maid early eer I knew"]
The Fairy
["Never pain to tell thy Love"]
["I asked a thief to steal me a peach"]
["My Spectre around me night & day"]
[Related stanzas]
["You dont believe I wont attempt to make ye"]
["Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau"]
["The only Man that eer I knew"]
["The Caverns of the Grave lye seen"]
Riches
["Since all the Riches of this World"]
["I rose up at the dawn of day"]
Blakes apology for his Catalogue
[THE "AUGURIES" (PICKERING) MANUSCRIPT] (C. 1805)
The Smile
The Golden Net
The Mental Traveller
The Land of Dreams
Mary
The Crystal Cabinet
The Grey Monk
Auguries of Innocence
Long John Brown & Little Mary Bell
William Bond
FROM VALA / THE FOUR ZOAS (C. 1797--1805)
FROM EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS IN FRESCO [ADVERTISEMENT] (1809)
"In the last Battle that Arthur fought..."
The Invention of a portable Fresco
FROM A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF PICTURES (1809)
FROM [AVIsION OF THE LAST JUDGMENT] (1810)
FROM [A PUBLIC ADDRESS TO THE CHALCOGRAPHIC SOCIETY]
(1809-10)
FROM [THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL] (C. 1818)
FROM THE MARGINALIA (I 789--1827)
From On Lavater's Aphorisms on Man (1788)
From On Swedenborg's Divine Love and Divine Wisdom (1788;notes c. 1790)
From On Watson's An Apology for the Bible ( 1797; notes 1798)
From On Bacon's Essays (1798)
From On Boyd's Translation of the Inferno in English Verse(1785; notes c. 1800)
From On Reynolds's Works (1798; notes c. 1798-1809)
From On Spurzheim's Observations on Insanity ( 1817)
From On Berkeley's Siris (1744; notes c. 1820)
From On Wordswortb's Preface to The Excursion (1814;notes 1826)
From On Wordsworth's Poems ( 1815; notes 1826)
From On Thornton's The Lord's Prayer, Newly Translated (1827)
FROM THE LETTERS
To the Reverend Dr. John Trusler, August 23, 1799
To George Cumberland, July 2, 1800
To George Cumberland, September l, 1800
To John Flaxman, September 12, 1800
To John Flaxman, September 21, 1800
To Thomas Butts, October 2, 1800
To Thomas Butts, November 22, 1802
To Thomas Butts, November 22, 1802 (second letter)
To Thomas Butts, January 10, 18013]
To James Blake, January 30, 1803
To Thomas Butts, April 25, 1803
To Thomas Butts, July 6, 1803
To Thomas Butts, August 16, 1803
Blake's Memorandum [August 1803]
To William Hayley, October 7, 1803
To William Hayley, October 23, 1804
To William Hayley, December 11, 1805
To Dawson Turner, June 9, 1818
To George Cumberland, April 12, 1827
Criticism
COMMENTS BY CONTEMPORARIES
Robert Hunt·From Mr Blake's Exhibition (1809)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge·From Letter to Charles Augustus Tulk[February 12, 1818]
John Thomas Smith·From Nollekens and His Times (1828)
FrederickTatham·From The Life of William Blake (c. 1832;1906)
Henry Crabb Robinson·From Reminiscences (1852; 1907)
Samuel Palmer·Letter to Alexander Gilchrist
TWENTIETH- AND TWENTY-FIRsT-CENTURY PERSPECTIVES
Allen Ginsberg·[My Vision of Blake]
Northrop Frye·Blake's Treatment of the Archetype
W. J. T. Mitchell·Dangerous Blake
Joseph Viscomi·[Blake's Relief Etching Process: A Simplified Account]
Stephen C. Behrendt·[The "Third Text" of Blake's Illuminated Books]
Martin K. Nnrmi·[On The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]
Alicia Ostriker·From Desire Gratified and Ungratified: William Blake and Sexuality
Nelson Hilton·From Some Polysemous Words in Blake
Jon Mee·From Blake the Bricoleur
Saree Makdisi·From Fierce Rushing: William Blake and the Cultural Politics of Liberty in the 1790s
Julia Wright·From "How Different the World to Them": Revolutionary Heterogeneity and Alienation
Morris Eaves·The Title-Page of The Book of Urizen
Harold Bloom·[On the Theodicy of Blake's Milton]
V. A. De Luca·FromAWall of Words: The Sublime as Text
TEXTUAL TECHNICALITIES
WILLIAM BLAKE·S LIFE AND TIMES: A CHRONOLOGY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
SOURCES CITED IN EDITORIAL NOTES
INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
