This carefully crafted ebook: "Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Songs of Innocence was the first of Blakes illuminated books published in 1789. It is a cheerful and optimistic volume which concerns itself with such themes as springtime; childrens games; the freedom of the human spirit; and a kind and loving God. Songs of Experience is the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The poems and artwork were reproduced by copperplate engraving and colored with washes by hand. Blake republished Songs of Innocence and Experience several times; often changing the number and order of the plates. The spellings; punctuation and capitalizations are those of the original Blake manuscripts. William Blake (1757 ndash; 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.
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