The Poems of William Blake

Bibliography

Illuminated books

  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience (edited 1794)
    • Songs of Innocence (edited 1789)
  • The Book of Thel* (written 1788–1790, edited 1789–1793)
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (written 1790–1793)
  • The Gates of Paradise (written 1793, edited 1818)
  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion* (edited 1793)
  • Continental prophecies*
    • America a Prophecy (edited 1793)
    • Europe a Prophecy (edited 1794–1821)
    • The Song of Los (edited 1795)
  • There is No Natural Religion (written 1788, possible edited 1794–1795)
  • The First Book of Urizen* (edited 1794–1818)
  • All Religions are One (written 1788, possible edited 1795)
  • The Book of Los* (edited 1795)
  • The Book of Ahania* (edited 1795)
  • Milton* (written 1804–1810)
  • Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion* (written 1804–1820 additions even later, edited 1820–1827 and 1832)

Non-illuminated

  • Poetical Sketches (written 1769–1777, edited 1783 and 1868 as a volume)
  • An Island in the Moon (written 1784, unfinished)
  • The French Revolution (edited 1791)
  • A Song of Liberty (edited 1792, published in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
  • Vala, or The Four Zoas* (written 1797–1807, unfinished)
  • Tiriel* (written c. 1789, edited 1874)

The works with * constitute the prophetic books.

Illustrated by Blake

  • Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories from Real Life (1791)
  • John Gay, Fables by John Gay with a Life of the Author, John Stockdale, Picadilly (1793)
  • Gottfried August Bürger, Leonora (not engraved by him)[154] (1796)
  • Edward Young, Night-Thoughts (1797)
  • Thomas Gray, Poems (1798)
  • Robert Blair, The Grave (1805–1808)
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1808)
  • John Varley, Visionary Heads (1819–1820)
  • Robert John Thornton, Virgil (1821)
  • The Book of Job (1823–1826)
  • John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1824–1827, unfinished)
  • Dante, Divine Comedy (1825–1827). Blake died in 1827 with work on these illustrations still unfinished. Of the 102 watercolours, 7 had been selected for engraving.

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