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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake (Paperback, 2000)
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Classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable ensnarement in a corrupt and repressive world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in the original 1794 edition of both collections. 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications Inc.
ISBN-139780486270517
eBay Product ID (ePID)88344846
Product Key Features
Book TitleSongs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
AuthorWilliam Blake
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry
Publication Year2000
Number of Pages64 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height212mm
Item Width133mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorWilliam Blake
Series TitleThrift Editions
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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