William Blake

';To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.' from ';Auguries of Innocence'At the end of his life, William Blake gave up hope of being widely understood, but the twentieth century brought his work a new and intense interest and acclaim. A poet, artist, and mystic, Blake declared that ';I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's.' And create he did.Included in this collection are well-known poems such as ';Tyger! Tyger! burning bright' and ';A Poison Tree,' longer poems such as ';The Everlasting Gospel,' an assortment of epigrams and short satire, and Blake's principal prose work, ';The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.'