“ A visionary genius... There are passages of brilliance everywhere... The wonder of Blake is that he had an imagination that brought together words and images ”
Independent
“ There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron ”
William Wordsworth
“ The movement of his [Blake's] early verse are like the gambollings of some very powerful animal, still in its fluffy-footed and tottering babyhood ”
Samuel Butler Yeats
“ [Blake] always insists on the importance of the pure, clean line that evokes and creates the figure on the background of the uncreated void ”
James Joyce
“ Blake is a great liberating imaginative force ”
Tom Paulin
“ The poems of a man with a profound interest in human emotions, and a profound knowledge of them ”
T.S. Eliot
Paperback
9780099511632
January 1, 2008
Vintage Classics
192 pages
Hardback
9781857157109
November 25, 1994
Everyman
284 pages
EBook
9781407091396
July 1, 2010
Vintage Digital
192 pages