VINTAGE CLASSICS : POEMS SELECTED BY PATTI SMITH PB B FORMAT – WILLIAM BLAKE-PATTI SMITH

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled William Blake Patti Smith introduces her favourite selection of Blake s poems, including the complete poems from Songs of Innocence and of Experience. William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps.