A sweeping journey through the foundations, triumphs, and transformations of British literature. This monumental volume gathers fifty of the most influential and enduring works ever written in the English language. From the heroic epic of Beowulf to the philosophical sublimity of the Romantic poets, from Shakespeare's immortal tragedies to the visionary science fiction of H. G. Wells, this collection traces the evolution of a literary tradition that shaped the modern world. Organized chron...

Make the Christmas season brighter with a wonderful collection of stories, poems, and timeless holiday tales. The Big Book of Christmas brings together a generous selection of classic Christmas stories, festive poems, fairy tales, and seasonal writings by various authors, offering hours of holiday reading for the whole family. From snowy winter nights and cozy firesides to family gatherings, unexpected adventures, acts of kindness, and magical Christmas encounters, these stories capture th...

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In 2002, Blake was p...

While his contemporaries considered Blake a madman, we now appreciate him as an important figure in the development of romantic and mystical poetry.Blake's poetry is unique from every angle: It possesses a philosophical depth that impacts the reader at a spiritual level.Blake created his own mythological world, which he outlined in his prophetic books. His complex world is inhabited by deities and heroes to whom he gave unusual names: Urizen, Luva, Tarmas, Urton, Los, Enitarm...

An edition of William Blake’s most influential poems, thoughtfully curated to showcase the full power of his mystical vision and lyrical genius. Designed for lasting value, this edition offers readers and collectors an elegant way to experience the essential works of one of English literature’s most iconic Romantic poets.The Best of William Blake presents a definitive selection of Blake’s most celebrated poems, spanning the innocence and experience of his early lyric works to the p...

'Every page is a window open in Heaven … interwoven designs companion the poems, and gold and yellow tints diffuse themselves over the page like summer clouds. The poems [of Song of Innocence] are the morning song of Blake's genius.' - W.B. Yeats'Blake sang of the ideal world, of the truth of the intellect, and of the divinity of imagination … The only writer to have written songs for children with the soul of a child … he holds, in my view, a unique position because he unites intellectual...

DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING gathers more than a century of Gothic experimentation into a capacious archive of terror, wonder, and psychological disturbance. Its contents range from foundational castle romances, spectral ballads, and Faustian tales to detective mysteries, decadent fantasies, imperial nightmares, and proto-science-fictional horrors. Recurring images—ruined houses, forbidden manuscripts, doubles, revenants, persecuted heroines, and corrupted inheritances—demonstrate how Gothic wr...

Piping down the valleys wild,Piping songs of pleasant glee,On a cloud I saw a child,And he laughing said to me:"Pipe a song about a Lamb!"So I piped with merry cheer."Piper, pipe that song again;"So I piped: he wept to hear."Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;Sing thy songs of happy cheer!"So I sang the same again,While he wept with joy to hear."Piper, sit thee down and writeIn a book, that all may read."So he vanish'd from my sight;And I pluck'd a hollow reed,And I made a rural pen,And I stain...

A dead poet comes back to undo the harm done in his name, and walks straight into the foot of the man writing the poem. This is the strangest and most personal of Blake's epics.William Blake (1757–1827) wrote, etched and printed Milton himself between 1804 and about 1810, words and design made together, at Felpham in Sussex and afterwards in London. In it John Milton, a hundred and thirty years dead and troubled by his own work, comes down from eternity to...

Twenty-Seven Drawings by William Blake is a curated collection showcasing the visionary artwork of the poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake. Though Blake is widely recognized for his poetic works like Songs of Innocence and Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, he was also a profoundly original and imaginative artist. This collection, published long after his death in 1926, brings together a selection of his drawings, which often depict spiritual, biblical, and mythologica...

Discover the Contrasts of Humanity with "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" by William Blake"Songs of Innocence and of Experience" is a profound collection of poetry that explores the dualities of human existence—innocence and experience, purity and corruption, childhood and maturity. William Blake masterfully juxtaposes these contrasting states to reveal the complexities of the human soul and society. The collection is divided into two parts: "Songs of Innocence," which celebrates the ...

This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe. Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide. Its growth from hamlet, town, fortification, city and centre of Empire is one of rich reward. Within its ever-changing borders that are forever moving outwards are gems of architecture across cultures, times and influences that exist in very few other places. Its diaspora of pe...