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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience Paperback - 1992

by William Blake


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As both painter and poet, William Blake (1757-1827) was a powerful and visionary artist whose two early collections of poetry, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, contain memorable lyric verses embodying the emerging spirit of Romanticism. The two works were published together in 1794 with the subtitle, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.
The poems of Songs of Innocence describe childhood states of naturalness and purity in delicately beautiful lyrics that reveal a child's unspoiled and beatific view of life and human nature. In Songs of Experience the mood and tone darken, the poems suggesting the bitter corruptions and disillusionment that await the innocent. The contrast between the two sets of lyrics is perhaps at its most acute in the poems The Lamb and The Tyger, the latter ultimately expressing wonderment at the seemingly paradoxical coexistence of good and evil. The full texts of all the poems in the 1794 edition of both collections are included in this volume.

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  • Title Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
  • Author William Blake
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-02
  • ISBN 9780486270517 / 0486270513
  • Weight 0.12 lbs (0.05 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.17 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 0.43 cm)
  • Ages 14 to UP years
  • Grade levels 9 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91026329
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.7
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