📗 Libro en inglés SELECTED POETRY

The Oxford Poetry Library series offers compact and fully annotated editions of some of the most important and best-loved English poets. Drawing on the acclaimed texts of the Oxford Authors series, these collections provide a generous selection of the verse of figures as diverse as Andrew Marvell and William Blake, John Keats and Thomas Hardy. Ideal for anyone interested in the eloquently wrought observations and thoughts of some of the English languages greatest writers, The Oxford Poetry Library should find a welcome place on the bookshelves of all lovers of literature. Beginning his career as an engraver, it was not until his thirties that William Blake distinguished himself as a poet. This new edition of Blakes verse, presented in chronological order, encompasses Blakes entire career, from his early Poetical Sketches and There is No Natural Religion through his best known work Songs of Innocence, part of his beautiful series of poetry in lyric and blank verse, to his later works Jerusalem and The Everlasting Gospel. Representing the full range of Blakes accomplishements as a poet, this outstanding volume highlights the extraordinarily diverse achievements of his remarkable poetic oeuvre.