Are you interested in reading poetry? If so, you are in the right place to research lots of poetry books that are written by world famous poets. Poets we have included in this category include Seamas Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, TS Eliot and William Blake. Get the right poetry book for you that suits your literary[...]
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Advantages: Interesting concept behind the plot Disadvantages: Slow paced
Author: George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright born in 1856, and who died in 1950. Although he write music as well, he most enjoying writng plays, with the prupose of putting across a social message, and making it more memorable with the use of ...
Advantages: Wonderfully concise, evocative, meaningful... Disadvantages: Not fully representative of all Blake's work...
William Blake (1757 – 1827) is possibly one of the most cherished poets the English language has ever brought forth. Blake has been called a seer, a prophet, a maniac, a visionary, a spokesman and an artist: but he was also a poet.
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Advantages: A masterpiece, which speaks to everyone. Disadvantages: None.
Songs of Innocence and Experience is Blake's best known work. Born into poverty in London in 1757, Blake nevertheless went to an art school and was apprenticed to an engraver. He had little formal education other than this however. It was there that he de ...
Advantages: Incredible engravings and touching poetry Disadvantages: None whatsoever.
...No words can do justice to Blake and his poetry. His apparently simple compositions, that comprise Songs of Innocence and Experience, contain so much spiritual meaning. There are very few books that can touch you quite as much.
Blake's Songs of Innocen ...
Advantages: insightful visionary inspired Disadvantages: cryptic if you're thick
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an enlightening piece of literature. Blake is a visionary well ahead of his times in his opinions on sexism, racism, individualism, religion, free love, sexuality, equality, unity etc etc. Blake was inspired by the ...