Songs Of Innocence Songs Of Experience

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

• | Author: William Blake, R Brimley Johnson
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Nov 14, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 38 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1540398218
• | ISBN-13: 9781540398215