Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540398215)

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: Brimley Johnson, William Blake
ISBN-10: 1540398218
ISBN-13: 9781540398215
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2016
Pages: 40
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d