Selected Poems

William Blake (1757-1827) was a truly visionary writer. Although afflicted by madness and poverty for much of his life, he managed to leave behind an astonishing body of work. From the pastoral simplicity of the Songs of Innocence, through the dark undercurrents of the Songs of Experience, and onwards into the restless and vivid imagination of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake's work is as moving, as troubling, and as fresh today as it was two hundred years ago.