MR William Blake

The Minor Prophecies MR William Blake

The 5th volume of the bilingual Collection of Works by William Blake (1757-1827) includes his eight "prophetic books" written in 1780-1795: "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" (1790-1903), "Visions of the Daughters of Albion," "America a Prophecy," (1793), "Europe a Prophecy," "The Book of Urizen" (1794), "The Song of Los" "The Book of Achania" and "The Book of Los" (1795). The Russian translations by D. Smirnov-Sadovsky are provided with detailed commentary and published for the first time. Meladina Books Series, St Albans, England. D. Smirnov-Sadovsky is a pseudonym of a composer Dmitri N. Smirnov. He was born in 1948 in Minsk, graduated from Moscow Conservatory. More than 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).