A convenient selection of Blake's poems, small enough to fit in one's pocket on a hike or train trip, slim enough for one's nightstand. Contains all of his best-known works, "How sweet I roamed," "Ah Sunflower," "Tyger, Tyger," and "Auguries of Innocence" ("To see a world in a grain of sand"), as well as excerpts from longer poems. There is a table of contents; it would have been nice to have an index as well, in alphabetical order. But given the small number of poems, and the fact that most are referred to by their first-lines, this is not a serious defect.
Blake is one of the strangest poets in the English language. Some of his poems are childlike in their simplicity and technically faulty, others remain locked in a hermetic world of the poet's making. But time spent reading and rereading them yields delights. Doors of perception, indeed. ( )