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Excerpt from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: And a Song of Liberty
Introduction Paradise. Of her we shall have occasion to speak aga1n.
In 1783 there appeared a thin volume, of some seventy pages, entitled Poetical Sketches. By W. B. The contents also include two prose pieces, 6 King Edward the Third, a fragment of Shakespearean drama.
This book, which is now of extreme rarity, was printed at the expense of Flaxman and another friend of Blake''s, the Rev. Henry Mathew. The latter wrote an Advertisement, in which he men tions that the following Sketches were the pro duction of untutored youth, commenced in his twelfth, and occasionally resumed by the author till his twentieth year.
The fact that the Sketches were never, strictly speaking, published, is in itself enough to account for their failing to attract the slightest notice. Yet their promise, as the work of so young a writer, was of the fairest.
The magic of some of the lyrics could not have been attained scarcely even approached by any poet of the day, except Burns, whose career was nearly at an end. In Mr W. M. Rossetti''s words, they have the same sort of pungent perfume,-in definable, but not evanescent, that belongs to the choicest Elizabethan songs.
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Introduction Paradise. Of her we shall have occasion to speak aga1n.
In 1783 there appeared a thin volume, of some seventy pages, entitled Poetical Sketches. By W. B. The contents also include two prose pieces, 6 King Edward the Third, a fragment of Shakespearean drama.
This book, which is now of extreme rarity, was printed at the expense of Flaxman and another friend of Blake''s, the Rev. Henry Mathew. The latter wrote an Advertisement, in which he men tions that the following Sketches were the pro duction of untutored youth, commenced in his twelfth, and occasionally resumed by the author till his twentieth year.
The fact that the Sketches were never, strictly speaking, published, is in itself enough to account for their failing to attract the slightest notice. Yet their promise, as the work of so young a writer, was of the fairest.
The magic of some of the lyrics could not have been attained scarcely even approached by any poet of the day, except Burns, whose career was nearly at an end. In Mr W. M. Rossetti''s words, they have the same sort of pungent perfume,-in definable, but not evanescent, that belongs to the choicest Elizabethan songs.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author(s) - William Blake
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ISBN - 9780483367395
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
Page Count - 81
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