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The simple and beautiful eloquence of William Blake's poetry is exemplified here in «Songs of Innocence and of Experience.» This collection of forty-six poems is actually two volumes in one. After first completing and publishing «Songs of Innocence» in 1789 Blake would, some five years later, add «Songs of Experience» to the volume in an effort to show «the two contrary states of the human soul.»

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A visionary of eighteen-century English society, William Blake produced a huge collection of poetry, mythology, satires, political pieces, and prophetic works, in addition to his famous etchings and engravings. Although rejected as a madman during his lifetime for claims of hearing voices and later having visions, Blake has achieved notoriety as an innovative and extraordinarily imaginative artist. His poetry varies greatly in style and substance, reflecting the writer's literary development and radical shifts in religious belief. This complete collection of Blake's poetry includes his famous «Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience,» which exemplify the author's fondness for thematic dichotomies in poems like «The Lamb» and «The Tyger». Also included are «The Four Zoas,» «Milton» and «Jerusalem,» all of which display an extensive use of symbolism derived from Christianity and an elaborate view of Blake's theories on reality and knowledge.

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A visionary of eighteen-century English society, William Blake produced a vast collection of poetry, mythology, satires, political pieces, and prophetic works, in addition to his famous etchings and engravings. Although largely unknown during his own lifetime and often rejected as a madman for claims of hearing voices and later having visions, Blake has achieved enduring fame for his innovative and extraordinarily imaginative work and is widely viewed as one of the most important of all English artists. Born in London in 1757, Blake received little formal schooling and began his apprenticeship as an engraver in 1772 and later studied painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The poetry he wrote throughout his life varies greatly in style and substance, reflecting his literary development and the radical shifts in his religious belief. This complete collection of Blake’s poetry includes his famous “Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience”, which exemplify the author’s fondness for thematic dichotomies in poems like “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”. Also included are “The Four Zoas”, “Milton”, and “Jerusalem”, all of which display an extensive use of symbolism from Christianity and Blake’s theories on reality and knowledge. This collection is an important addition to the library of any scholar, student, or poetry enthusiast.

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This collection of poems by famous English Romantic poet William Blake comprises two volumes in one. Self-published by Blake, the first collection entitled “Songs of Innocence”, first appeared in 1789. This volume focuses on the pastoral and innocent perfection of childhood. The tone is beautiful and often delicately romantic. However there is also a dark side to the naivety of childhood. Blake explores the vulnerability of the poor and the young to the exploitation of the Industrial Age in the poems “The Chimney Sweeper” and “The Little Black Boy.” Blake expanded on this dark theme five years later when he added a second volume of poems and published the entire work in 1794 as “Songs of Innocence and of Experience,” with the subtitle “Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.” The first state of being is that of the innocent and pure child. The second state is that of experience when one comes to know the true nature of human society. In this second state, one learns fear and inhibitions, changes forced by religion, the desires of the ruling class, and the pressures of society. It was Blake’s hope that readers would reject the repressive institutions of his contemporary world and instead return to a simpler more pastoral way of living, somewhere in between innocence and experience.

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William Blake's 1789 classic evokes an idyllic world, populated by pipers, shepherds, angels, and joyful children. Graced by Charles and Mary Robinson's ethereal Art Nouveau illustrations, this special edition comprises the complete Songs of Innocence, in addition to nine poems from Songs of Experience.

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As both painter and poet, William Blake (1757–1827) was a powerful and visionary artist whose two early collections of poetry, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, contain memorable lyric verses embodying the emerging spirit of Romanticism. The two works were published together in 1794 with the subtitle, «Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.» The poems of Songs of Innocence describe childhood states of naturalness and purity in delicately beautiful lyrics that reveal a child's unspoiled and beatific view of life and human nature. In Songs of Experience the mood and tone darken, the poems suggesting the bitter corruptions and disillusionment that await the innocent. The contrast between the two sets of lyrics is perhaps at its most acute in the poems «The Lamb» and «The Tyger,» the latter ultimately expressing wonderment at the seemingly paradoxical coexistence of good and evil. The full texts of all the poems in the 1794 edition of both collections are included in this volume.

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Regarded by a contemporary as a «brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature,» William Blake (1757–1827) is today recognized as a major poet and artist. This collection of 104 poems, carefully chosen by noted Blake scholars David and Virginia Erdman, reveals the lyricism, mystical vision, and consummate craftsmanship that have earned the poet his preeminent place with both critics and the general public. Among the selections included here are «Proverbs of Hell» from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ― a satire on religion and morality considered Blake's most inspired and original work; «A Song of Liberty,» «The Argument,» «The Mental Traveller,» «Gwin, King of Norway,» «The Land of Dreams,» «William Bond,» «To the Evening Star,» and many more.

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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of poetry by William Blake<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>Auguries Of Innocence<br>Samson<br>The Everlasting Gospel<br>The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell<br>The Song Of Los<br>Thel<br>Songs of Innocence<br>Songs of Experience

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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell • Poems of • Illustrations of The Book of Job •: A Critical EssayAlgernon Charles Swinburne • The Tiger • Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience • The Voice of the Ancient Bard

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"William Blake an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form «„what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language“». His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him «„far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced“». Although he lived in London his entire life except for three years spent in Felpham he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as «„the body of God“», or «„Human existence itself“». Famous poems of the author William Blake: «„A Poison Tree“», «„The Tyger Tyger! Tyger!“», «„Of Innocence“», «„The Angel“», «„A Divine Image“», «„Love's Secret“», «„A Cradle Song“», «„A Dream“», «„London“», «„A Little Girl Lost“», «„A War Song To Englishmen“», «„A Little Boy Lost“», «„A Song“»."

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