MR William Blake

Poems and Ballads MR William Blake

The First Complete English-Russian Bilingual Edition of POEMS and BALLADS by William Blake (1757-1827). The collection of 179 poems includes all the poems from his Notebook called "Rossetti manuscript," as well as from "Pickering manuscript," Letters, Annotations, and other sources. More that 100 Blake's poems of this collection were translated into Russian for the first time. D. Smirnov-Sadovsky is a pseudonym of a composer Dmitri N. Smirnov. He was born in 1948 in Minsk, graduated from Moscow Conservatory. About 40 of Smirnov's music works reflect his fascination with the poetry and art of William Blake. That includes operas "Tiriel" and "Thel," First Symphony ("The Seasons"), oratorio "A Song of Liberty," etc. Since 1991 Smirnov have been resident of England. He began to translate English poetry into Russian in 1968. Living 25 years in England he has completed the translation of practically all literary works of William Blake and also wrote his full-length biography (available at Amazon).