Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Author: William Blake
As both painter and poet, William Blake (1757–1827) was a powerful and visionary artist whose two early collections of poetry, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, contain memorable lyric verses embodying the emerging spirit of Romanticism. The two works were published together in 1794 with the subtitle, “Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.” The poems….Read More
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