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5 reviews
Jay Williams, Blake Hampton

Macmillan Pub Co, 2000

Adult collector loves it too
As an adult collector of children's literature, this book is one of my favorites, too. The adults in the town are uptight and concerned about the unnatural appearance of a cookie tree. The message is one of enjoying your blessings and also, I think, of not being afraid of the strange or unknown. Wonderful book.

Blake's Illustrations for the Book of Job

4 reviews
William Blake

Dover Publications, 1995

A book that changed my life
I was shown a copy of this book 25 years ago. Blake's art transformed my world. I have been a student of Blake ever since. I still go back to this book often. This book, in a few pages, gave me an entry into Blake's system.

The Complete Writings of William Blake with Variant Reading (Oxford Standard Authors)

4 reviews
William Blake

Oxford University Press, USA, 1966

The Best Edition!
Mr. Keynes' edition of Blake's complete poetry and prose is the one I've used not only at Shimer College, but also in Russia and China when I taught Blake there. Mr. Keynes arranges Blake's writings chronologically. The reader can thus more clearly see how Blake's mythic system evolves. Clarity matters when a reader falls into a universe as visionary and fluid as William Blake's. Each poem is ...

Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton Critical Edition)

4 reviews
William Blake, John E. Grant, ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 1979

Come and see a world in a grain of sand . . .
This is absolutely the best compendium of Blake's work which articualtes an outstanding range of his vision. This edition acknowledges the poetry and color paintings of a consumate craftsman of the imagination on high quality, acid free paper and is nylon stitched and bound in signatures to last a lifetime. Books are rarely made this way but the Norton edition is a beautiful rendering of ...

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color

4 reviews
William Blake

Dover Publications, 1994

"The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
One of Blake's fantastic works, with all of the artwork right there with it. This is the first copy of a William Blake book I ever owned and I still love it to death, as small as it is, and read it again and again.

The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake

17 reviews
William Blake, William Golding

Anchor, 1982

SAYONARA......IT'S BEEN FUN!
What to write for my last review? That was tough. Since I was a little boy I have always been one of those who had his face in a book. Books, books, books. When I began my jobs as a paperboy, and later at the grocery store, I began buying books. This hobby grew so large, that my father made our rumpus room a library for me. And it grew ever larger. By the time I enlisted in the Air Force, I had ...

Great Sonnets (Dover Thrift Editions)

5 reviews
William Shakespeare, William Blake, ...

Dover Publications, 1994

Great intro and survey of sonnets
I needed a little reference with sonnet examples. This fit the bill, and had some savory treats as well. I am a bit time-greedy with my poetry reading, and a sonnet is a fantastic way to get some of the best Shakespeare, Shelley, Longfellow, Hardy, Frost, etc. distilled down to a minute, even reading slowly. It's great to flick open to a page and see some masterful language on a time ...

Milton, A Poem (The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Volume 5)

4 reviews
William Blake, Robert N. Essick, ...

Princeton Univ Pr, 1993

You don't know these people.
Try as I might, I haven't come up with the blend of radical individualism thwarted by universal awareness which would make this kind of book an intellectual treat for most people. I have read the poems by William Blake (just a few thousand lines, really) that are in this book before, and I even compared the abridged copy of his poems which I've had for years with a complete text from the library ...

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

4 reviews
William Blake

Book Jungle, 2008

Beautiful, significant poetry for those who know poetry.
In order to understand Blake's vision, it's helpful to know as much as possible about the social and historical context in which he was writing, and about the kinds of attitudes and social conditions he was addressing. Without that context, readers are unlikely to appreciate Blake as fully as he deserves to be appreciated. Such readers may write uninformed and ignorant reviews in this column. ...

Jerusalem

6 reviews
William Blake

Barnes & Noble, 1964

A must have!
I recommend that any fan of William Blake buy this volume and the other 5 in the series. The books are beautiful, large, and handsomely bound. Each book is reproduced in full color, using a six-color printing process rather than the standard four. The pages are heavy, opaque and have a gorgous lustre indicating very high quality paper. The text of each book accompanies the color reproductions in ...

Favorite Works of William Blake: Three Full-Color Books (Dover Thrift)

2 reviews
William Blake

Dover Publications, 1996

Essential Blake
This is a GREAT set. I was amazed and well-pleased. Blake is essential for thinkers...and this is just a slight sample of his talent. I'd recommend it for those who love to think and to learn. Very heady--good food! Tikya! ari

The Continental Prophecies (The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Volume 4)

3 reviews
William Blake

Princeton University Press, 1998

Poetic Genius
Blake's work must be read in reproduction. An engraver by trade, Blake revolutionized book production with his "infernal method" of engraved illumination, hand-crafting each book. In the Continental Prophesies, Blake revolutionizes historiography; _America_'s retelling of the American Revolution, for instance, juxtaposes Washington and Paine with Orc and Urizen, fact with myth, to produce ...

Trusting God's People... Again

4 reviews
Blake Coffee

TrustedBooks, 2007

A heavenly solution to a real-world, universal problem
Wherever people are gathered, the possibility of hurting each other looms large. Somehow I had hoped that churches would be asylums where human beings uplifted and never hurt each other, by omission or by comission. Because churches are populated by regular human beings, like you and me, people do get hurt and so does God. Wounded people are tempted to withdraw, in pain or fear, from other ...

The Urizen Books (The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Volume 6)

3 reviews
William Blake

Princeton University Press, 1998

Beautiful images, great helps for the general reader
These three works in some ways develop the characters Blake used in the three Continental Prophecies. But don't expect any kind of coherent development or to be able to fathom out any kind of understandable timeline. This is Blake after all. Most of this book is helpful introduction, commentary, notes, and supplementary materials. "The First Book of Urizen" is the longest of the three and ...

Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Contemporary Approach, Sixth Edition

2 reviews
Gary L. Musser, William F. Burger, ...

Wiley, 2002

A VERY GOOD MATH BOOK!!!!!!
So often, math textbooks are beyond anyone's comprehension. Here is one book that has changed all that! There are plenty of examples and explains the reasons and theories as to why a certain math topic is solved the way it is. It also shows different ways one could solve problems! This 6th edition doesn't have much difference from the 5th except for more on Statistics and Probability.

Visions of the Daughters of Albion

3 reviews
William Blake

Huntington Library Press, 2003

The definitive edition of a timeless classic
Deftly edited by Robert N. Essick (Professor of English, University of California - Riverside), Visions of the Daughters of Albion is a full color reproduction of William Blake's classic literary blend of verse and art, which was first printed in 1793. Enhanced with a straightforward, easy-to-read, separate transcription of Blake's poem, drawings from Blake's sketchbook related to the final work, ...

The portable Blake, (The Viking portable library)

2 reviews
William Blake

The Viking Press, 1946

The introduction alone is worth the price of admission
The best of William Blake (and then some!), taken off the shelf, dusted off and propped up for the rest of eternity to consider. From the aphorisms of "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" (required reading) to the later prophetic books, it's Blake in all of his...Blakeness. And let's give a hand to Kazin for his fantastic Introduction to one of the heavy-hitters of the Western tradition.

The Early Illuminated Books (The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Volume 3)

3 reviews
William Blake

Princeton University Press, 1998

A must have!
I recommend that any fan of William Blake buy this volume and the other 5 in the series. The books are beautiful, large, and handsomely bound. Each book is reproduced in full color, using a six-color printing process rather than the standard four. The pages are heavy, opaque and have a gorgous lustre indicating very high quality paper. The text of each book accompanies the color reproductions in ...

Great Poets of the Romantic Age (Poetry)

2 reviews
William Blake, William Wordsworth, ...

Naxos Audiobooks, 1994

Ahhhh...Swoon Swoon Swoon...
I can hardly contain my enthusiasm at finding this title. The poets they chose for this collection couldn't have been more satisfying. The other reason I got it was that I had just discovered actor, Michael Sheen, who narrates. He has a truly, magnificent voice that gives me chills. As someone who has directed voice talent, and devours poetry, I can tell you that he is a very skilled reader. This ...

Wizzil

4 reviews
William Steig

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2000

A book well worth the money
I found "Wizzil" at the local library and thought it would be just another picture book to share with my children. As I started reading it, I was instantly hooked on the writing style of author William Steig. This book is "awesome" and "highly entertaining." I am also a children's writer myself trying to break into the business, so I have read and studied many children's picture books--this ...

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