Songs of innocence and of experience : shewing the two contrary states of the human soul, 1789, 1794

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Title:

Songs of innocence and of experience : shewing the two contrary states of the human soul, 1789, 1794

Author:

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

ISBN:

9780192810892

Personal Author:

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Publication Information:

London : Oxford University Press, 1970, c1967.

Physical Description:

xvi, [212] p. : col. ill.

General Note:

Reproduction in the original size of William Blake's illuminated book: Songs of innocence and of experience.

Introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes.

Added Author:

Keynes, Geoffrey, Sir, 1887-1982.

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Searching... IIEMSA	General Books	33168015686757	820.6 B636S 1970	1	Searching... Unknown

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 Expereince, 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.

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