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Songs of Innocence by William Blake (Paperback, 1972)
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William Blake's innovations in engraving techniques brought about his brilliant synthesis of visual and poetic art and signaled the beginning of his famous Illuminated Books, of which the Songs of Innocence was the first and most popular. Unfortunately, Blake's vision is generally known to the world in amputated form: because of the difficulty and expense of reproducing his original conception, most editions of Blake's work offer only the printed text, with no trace of the visual counterpart so essential to his System. This new, facsimile edition of the Songs of Innocence reproduces Blake's colour plates in a fashion which the artist himself would have approved. The 31 plates - printed on facing pages which are the same size of Blake's own first edition - offer one of the more brightly coloured versions of this significant volume, no two copies of which are the same. As a special aid to readers, a typographical reprint of the text of poems follows the plates. Such classic songs as The Lamb and The Chimney Sweeper are now accessible to all in the symbiotic union of poem and picture that is crucial to a total understating of Blake's mind and art.Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications Inc.
ISBN-139780486227641
eBay Product ID (ePID)90230690
Product Key Features
Book TitleSongs of Innocence
AuthorWilliam Blake
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry
Publication Year1972
Number of Pages64 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height177mm
Item Width134mm
Item Weight98g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorWilliam Blake
Series TitleDover Fine Art, History of Art
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 20 Feb, 2019
Songs of Innocence is a book full of poems written with an innocent perspective on life.
Blake's poems are very interesting and having the illustrations, which he made, help the understanding of the poems. I really liked reading this book and will keep it as future inspiration. Songs of Innocence is full of poems which take an innocent view of life and the world. The book is one of a pair, the other is Songs of Experience, which is produced in the same format.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
