Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Author: Blake, William

Poetry by individual poets

Published on 15 October 1970 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 160 pages, 54 colour plates, 1 black and white illustration
203 x 138 x 12 | 194g

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 Experience , 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.