Books like William Blake, 1757-1827 by Jacob Bronowski

Peter Ackroyd chronicles the life and mystic art of William Blake, tracing his journey from a London hosier’s son to a visionary poet and engraver whose spiritual and social critiques remain ahead of his time.

Songs of Innocence and Experience is William Blake’s paired collection of poems reflecting the stark contrast between childlike purity and the harsh realities of the world.

The author chronicles his present-day journey to find Ciudad Blanca, the legendary White City rumored to exist in the rain forests of Nicaragua's and Honduras' Mosquito Coast, following in the footsteps of the explorer and World War II spy Theodore Morde, who set out on the same journey on April 6, 1940. Legends, like the jungle, are dense and captivating. Many have sought their fortune or fame down the Rio Patuca -- from Christopher Columbus to present-day college professors -- and many have died or disappeared. What begins as a passing interest slowly turns into an obsession as Stewart pieces together the whirlwind life and mysterious death of Theodore Morde, a man who had sailed around the world five times before he was thirty and claimed to have discovered what he called the Lost City of the Monkey God. Armed with Morde's personal notebooks and the enigmatic coordinates etched on his well-worn walking stick, Stewart sets out to test the jungle himself -- and to test himself in the jungle. As we follow the parallel journeys of Morde and Stewart, the ultimate destination morphs with their every twist and turn. - Jacket flap.

A comprehensive, critically annotated collection of William Blake’s poetry and prose, incorporating recent scholarship on variants, chronology, and commentary.