Songs of Experience (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake‪)‬

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Songs of Experience is the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (first published in 1794), an expansion of Blake's first illuminated book Songs of Innocence. The poems and artwork were reproduced by copperplate engraving and colored by hand. Blake republished Songs of Innocence and Experience several times, often changing the number and order of the plates. The spelling, punctuation and capitalization are those of the original Blake manuscripts.

William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books.  Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.


CONTENT:

Introduction

Earth's Answer

The Clod and the Pebble

Holy Thursday

The Little Girl Lost

The Little Girl Found

The Chimney-Sweeper

Nurse's Song

The Sick Rose

The Fly

The Angel

The Tiger

My Pretty Rose Tree

Ah, Sunflower

The Lily

The Garden of Love

The Little Vagabond

London

The Human Abstract

Infant Sorrow

A Poison Tree

A Little Boy Lost

A Little Girl Lost

A Divine Image

A Cradle Song

The Schoolboy

To Tirzah