And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?
        (Milton: And did those feet in ancient time, 7-8)

1. Ah! Sun-flower
2. America: A Prophecy (excerpt)
3. Auguries of Innocence (excerpt)
4. The Book of Thel
5. The Book of Urizen (excerpt)
6. The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
7. The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young
8. The Clod and the Pebble
9. The Divine Image
10. A Divine Image
11. Earth's Answer
12. Europe: A Prophecy (excerpt)
13. The Four Zoas (excerpt)
14. The French Revolution (excerpt)
15. The Garden of Love
16. The Grey Monk (excerpt)
17. Holy Thursday: Is this a holy thing to see
18. Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
19. I Heard an Angel
20. I Saw a Chapel
21. Infant Joy
22. Infant Sorrow
23. Introduction to the Songs of Experience
24. Introduction to the Songs of Innocence
25. Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake! (excerpt)
26. Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep (excerpt)
27. The Lamb
28. The Little Black Boy
29. The Little Vagabond
30. London
31. Mad Song
32. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (excerpt)
33. Milton: And did those feet in ancient time (excerpt)
34. Milton: But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance (excerpt)
35. Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los (excerpt)
36. Never Seek to Tell thy Love
37. A Poison Tree
38. The Sick Rose
39. Silent, Silent Night
40. The Smile
41. Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
42. Song: Memory, hither come
43. Song: My silks and fine array
44. To the Muses
45. The Tyger

Notes on Life and Works

• Essick, Robert N.. “Blake, William (1757-1827).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: William
Family name: Blake
Birth date: 28 November 1757
Death date: 12 August 1827
Nationality: English
Family relations
          wife: Catherine Blake (from 1782)
Language: English
Education
          Par's drawing school, Strand: 1767
          Royal Academy: 1778
Literary period: Romantic
Occupation: Engraver
Residences
          Golden Square: 1757
          Leicester Fields: 1782
          Lambeth: 1793
          Felpham: 1800
          London: 1803
Cause of death: biliary cirrhosis
Buried at: Bunhill Fields, Finsbury
First RPO edition: 1997