This, the second volume of the collected edition of the Illuminated books, reproduces for the first time a copy of the Songs... which is particularly associated with Blake and which shows evidence of the highest degree of care on the artist's part.
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.
The first and most popular of Blake's famous "Illuminated Books," in a facsimile edition reproducing all 31 brightly colored plates. Additional printed text of each poem.
Pipe a song about a Lamb: So I piped with merry chear, Piper pipe that song again—So I piped, he wept to hear. Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe Sing thy songs of happy chear, So I sung the same again While he wept with joy to hear.
“In the rare-book world Sabin did not have—to put it kindly—the best reputation for integrity,” as Edwin Wolf noted in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (vol. 84, no. 1 [March 1990],.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience is both modern and readable.
Blake was one of the finest craftsmen of his time, an artist for whom art and poetry were inextricably linked.
An exploration of the 'dramatic' statements amongst the contradictions in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience.
Songs of Experience William Blake We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection.
The volume's "Contrary States" are sometimes signalled by patently repeated or contrasted titles: in Innocence, Infant Joy, in Experience, Infant Sorrow; in Innocence, The Lamb, in Experience, The Fly and The Tyger.
William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience," combined in this little volume, are both filled with amazing poetry. In "Songs of Innocence," Blake reveals the true innocent and peaceful ways of a person's childhood.