/lit/ - Literature

>>10695179
Uptake with the Blake

>>10644471
>>10644631
For an absolute beginner I'd say Songs of Innocence/Experience first; both are pretty digestible, but people have probably already heard the Tyger (and maybe London) in school, so would have a foothold in that way, from which they could expand to see the whole thing where each poem in Innocence is a mirror image of one in Experience (like the Tyger with the Lamb, and the two Chimney Sweeper poems). After that I'd actually recommend the Auguries of Innocence, which have his famous "to see the world in a grain of sand" bit, and THEN the Marriage. But the critical thing no matter what you read is to take a look at his art plates, not just the text on a boring black-and-white Penguin Classics page.

>>10250059
It's pretty good, but Blake > all other Romantics