FIRST VINTAGE CLASSICS EDITION, NOVEMBER 2016
Introduction and selection copyright © 2007 by Patti Smith
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in the United Kingdom by Vintage Classics, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2007.
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The text of this edition follows the versions established by Geoffrey Keynes, which keep William Blake’s own spellings and capitalizations.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Blake, William, 1757–1827, author. | Smith, Patti.
Title: Poems / William Blake; selected and introduced by Patti Smith.
Description: First Vintage Classics edition. | New York: Vintage Books, 2016. | Series: Vintage classics
Identifiers: LCCN 2016035734 | ISBN 9781101973141 (paperback)
Subjects: | BISAC: POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Classification: LCC PR4142. S55 2016 | DDC 821/. 7—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016035734
Vintage Books Trade Paperback ISBN 9781101973141
Ebook ISBN 9780525434856
Cover design by Linda Huang
Cover image: “A Cradel Song,” plate 25 from Songs of Innocence, 1789 by William Blake © Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA / Paul Mellon Collection / Bridgeman Images
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