Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Illuminated Manuscript
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William Blake
William Blake was born in London in 1757. He was apprenticed to a master engraver and then studied at the Royal Academy under the guidance of Joshua Reynolds. In 1789 he engraved and published Songs of Innocence and the contrasting Songs of Experience came later in 1794. A poet, painter and printmaker of great originality and imagination, his work was largely unrecognized during his lifetime and he struggled to make a living. Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He died in 1827.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience - William Blake
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Illuminated Manuscript
EAN 8596547000792
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
Songs of Innocence
Introduction
The Shepherd
Infant Joy
On Another's Sorrow
The School Boy
Holy Thursday
Nurse's Song
Laughing Song
The Little Black Boy
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
Ecchoing Green
The Chimney Sweeper
The Divine Image
A Dream
The Little Girl Lost
The Little Girl Found
The Little Boy Lost
The Little Boy Found
A Cradle Song
Spring
The Blossom
The Lamb
Night
Songs of Experience
Introduction
Earth's Answer
The Clod & the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Little Girl Lost
The Little Girl Found
The Chimney Sweeper
Nurses Song
The Sick Rose
The Fly
The Angel
The Tyger
My Pretty Rose Tree
Ah! Sun-flower
The Lilly
The Garden of Love
The Little Vagabond
London
The Human Abstract
Infant Sorrow
A Poison Tree
A Little Boy Lost
A Little Girl Lost
To Tirzah
The School Boy
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
Songs of Innocence
Table of Contents
Songs of Innocence was the first of Blake's illuminated books published in 1789. The poems and artwork were reproduced by copperplate engraving and colored with washes by hand. In 1794 he expanded the book to include Songs of Experience. The spellings, punctuation and capitalizations are those of the original Blake manuscripts.
Introduction
Introduction
Table of Contents
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
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.
"Piper, sit thee down and write
In a book, that all may read."
So he vanish'd from my sight,
And I pluck'd a hollow reed,
And I made a rural pen,
And I stain'd the water clear,
And I wrote my