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In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial representations to Blake"s verse. Biographical context is provided through dozens of excerpts from Blake"s notebook, letters, marginalia, and other writings. 'Criticism' offers twenty wide-ranging commentaries by writers from Blake"s contemporaries to present-day critics, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Northrop Frye, Allen Ginsberg, Morris Eaves, Harold Bloom, Alicia Ostriker, John Mee, Saree Makdisi, and Julia Wright. A section on Textual Technicalities, a Chronology of Blake"s life and work, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are also included.
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The major poetic and prose works of Blake are accompanied by his illuminations and selected criticism.
'\'John E. Grantis Professor Emeritus of English, University of Iowa. He previously taught at the University of Connecticut. His publications include Discussions of William Blakeand Blake\\\"s Visionary Forms Dramatic. Mary Lynn Johnsonis Special Assistant Emerita, President\\\'s Office, University of Iowa. She is the co-author of Blake\\\'s \\\"Four Zoas\\\": The Design of the Dream. \''
Blake's Poetry and Designs: Authoritative Texts, Illuminations in Color and Monochrome, Related Prose, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)
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