Súborné dielo rebela anglickej poézie, plné mnohoznačností, tajomných symbolov, mystiky, sexu a religiozity, pomocou ktorých Blake preberá otázky ľudského života, jeho existencie.
William Blake include questions of the proper place of intellectual control in the personality, the place of impulse, the relations between authority and those it controls (and therefore between elders and children), the relations of the sexes, the folly of moral generalities (one law for the lion and the ox), the poison of jealousy, and the overwhelming importance of forgiveness. Characterized by an extraordinarily imaginative language and a forcefulness and suppleness of rhythms, Blake's poetry possesses a remarkable muscularity and exuberance.
