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Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Blake, William

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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1720558248
ISBN13: 9781720558248
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 1 2018
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. William Blake was also a painter before the songs of innocence and experience and made paintings such as Oberon, Titania, and Puck dancing with fairies. Innocence and Experience are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of Paradise and Fall. Blake's categorizes our modes of perception that tend to coordinate with a chronology that would become standard in Romanticism: childhood is a state of protected innocence rather than original sin, but not immune to the fallen world and its institutions.

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