Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, 1789-1794

Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, 1789-1794
ISBN-10
0192810898
ISBN-13
9780192810892
Series
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Category
Art
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
1967
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Authors
William Blake, Geoffrey Keynes

Description

Blake was one of the finest craftsmen of his time, an artist for whom art and poetry were inextricably linked. He was an indepedent and rebellious thinker, who abhorred pretention and falsity in others. His Songs of Innocence are products of this innocent imagination untainted by worldliness, while the Songs of Experience resulted from his feelings of indignation and pity for the sufferings of mankind. The Songs of Innocence and Expereince, containing some of Blake's finest and best-loved poems, are presented here in the form which best satisfied the high expectations of his poetic and artistic aspirations. The fifty-four plates which Blake originallly etched and coloured by hand are faithfully reproduced with the same delicacy and dimensions as the artist created them.

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