Introduction to Blake's Selected Poems · · · · · · ·

Author: [English] Blake

Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

Subtitle: English-Chinese translation

Original name: selected poems of william blake

Translator: Yuan Kejia / Mu Dan

Publication year: 2011-11

Number of pages: 176

Price: RMB 10.00

Binding: Paperback

Series: Translations of English Poetry Classics

isbn: 9787513513944

William Blake has been hailed as "the great and unique imaginative English poet", whose poems are rustic, fresh and musical, combining extremely complex and mysterious imagery with minimalist forms, full of passionate imagination. The book contains Yuan Kejia's translation of "The Song of Innocence", Zha Liangzheng's translation of "Sketches of Poetry" and some prose, presented in bilingual form, and accompanied by a large number of Blake's paintings, which are extremely readable.

William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet, painter, sculptor, and the starting poet of the English Romantic era.

Yuan Kejia (1921-2008), a native of Cixi, Zhejiang. The "Nine Leaves" represent poets, translators, and critics.

Zha Liangzheng (1918-1977), a native of Haining, Zhejiang, pen name Mu Dan. The "Nine Leaves School" represents poets and translators.