Blake The Complete Poems
Edited by W. H. Stevenson
Third Edition
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List of Illustrations ix
Note by the General Editors X Acknowledgements xii Preface xiii Chronological Table of the Life and Work of William Blake xvii Abbreviations xxiv
THE POEMS
2 Poems written in a copy of Poetical Sketches 41
3 Songs from An Island in the Moon 43
4 All Religions are One and There is No Natural Religion 55
5 Songs of Innocence 58
6 Tiriel 79
7 Thel 99
8 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 106
9 The French Revolution 130 10 A Divine Image 149
II Poems from the Notebook, c. 1791-2 149 12 Visions of the Daughters of Albion 179
13 America 193
14 Songs of Experience 214
15 Europe 229 16 The Song of Los 246
17 The First Book of Urizen 252
18 The Book of Ahania 274
19 The Book of Los 284 20 Verses written with illustrations to Gray's Poems 291 21 Verses written c. 1798-1802 292 22 Vala, or The Four Zoas 293
23 'When Klopstock England defied' 482
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24 Poems in letters (1800) 484
25 On the Virginity of the Virgin Mary and Joanna Southcott 488
26 Poems to Mr & Mrs Butts 488
27 'He is a cock would' 492
28 Notebook drafts, c. 1804 492
29a Preface to Milton 501
29 Milton 503
30 The 'Pickering Manuscript' 602
31 To Tirzah 617
32 'A fain' skip'd' 618
33 To the Queen 619
34 Miscellaneous Verses, c. 1807-9 620
35 Miscellaneous Verses, 1809-12 634
36 Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion 648
37 For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise 890
38 The Everlasting Gospel 895
39 The Ghost of Abel 910
Appendix: Doubtful and Spurious Attributions 914
Index of Titles and First Lines 916
Index to Notes and Relevant Passages 927
Index to Prose Quotations 928