The Songs of Innocence and Experience are masterpieces of English lyric poetry and William Blake's most famous work, presenting two vastly different views of the world: one beautiful and one horrific. This edition contains all of the poems (including the rare early poem, "A Divine Image") and unlike most editions, preserves Blake's idiosyncratic spelling, punctuation, and capitalization system. The poems are presented exactly as Blake intended them. To elucidate Blake's poems, 46 full-page illustrations were created by author and designer Robert Crayola. Each image is rendered in meticulous...
The Songs of Innocence and Experience are masterpieces of English lyric poetry and William Blake's most famous work, presenting two vastly different v...
The Songs of Innocence shows how the human spirit blossoms when allowed its own free movement. The Songs of Experience shows how the human spirit withers after it has been suppressed and forced to conform to rules and doctrines.
"There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott." -William Wordsworth
The Songs of Innocence shows how the human spirit blossoms when allowed its own free movement. The Songs of Experience shows how the human spirit wit...
