| Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience Contributor(s): Johnson, Brimley (Editor), Blake, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1540398218 ISBN-13: 9781540398215 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | Native American - Poetry | Epic |
| Physical Information: 0.08" H x 6" W x 9" (0.15 lbs) 40 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a 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 Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul."Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "Paradise" and the "Fall." Blake's categories are 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 |