One of William Blakes most celebrated works, it tackles purity. A closer look at some of Blake's poems, featuring their original illustrated pages, from the Tate organization, which holds a large collection of Blake originals. Introduction to Songs of Experience: Analysis Blake seems to pass through a state of spiritual crisis in the years when he composed Songs of Experience. Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of poems with bold and competing motifs. Here Sinclair discusses Blake's radicalism.

An interesting comparison of this poem with its partner in Songs of Innocence. Experience is Generation and the fall, through which man can either. How the poem looked when Blake originally published it-produced through the process of illuminated printing. If each human life contains space and time, then the microcosm contains the macrocosm. Full text in which 'The Chimney Sweeper' is collected, from Project Gutenberg. In his most famous works, the poet saw Innocence as a state of freedom and happiness, linked to childhood, because children represented the power of imagination. Writer Iain Sinclair on Blake's religious visions.įull Text of Songs of Innocence and Experience

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