{"product_id":"songs-of-innocence-songs-of-experience-9781534689459","title":"Songs of Innocence: Songs of Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSongs of Innocence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSongs of Experience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy William Blake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSongs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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. This world sometimes impinges on childhood itself, and in any event becomes known through \"experience,\" a state of being marked by the loss of childhood vitality, by fear and inhibition, by social and political corruption, and by the manifold oppression of Church, State, and the ruling classes. The volume's \"Contrary States\" are sometimes signalled by patently repeated or contrasted titles: in Innocence, Infant Joy, in Experience, Infant Sorrow; in Innocence, The Lamb, in Experience, The Fly and The Tyger. The stark simplicity of poems such as The Chimney Sweeper and The Little Black Boy display Blake's acute sensibility to the realities of poverty and exploitation that accompanied the \"Dark Satanic Mills\" of the Industrial Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSONGS OF INNOCENCE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Shepherd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Echoing Green\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lamb\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Little Black Boy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Blossom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Chimney-Sweeper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Little Boy Lost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Little Boy Found\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLaughing Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Cradle Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Divine Image\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoly Thursday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNurse's Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInfant Joy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Dream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Another's Sorrow \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSONGS OF EXPERIENCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarth's Answer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Clod and the Pebble\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoly Thursday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Little Girl Lost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Little Girl Found\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Chimney-Sweeper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNurse's Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sick Rose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Fly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Angel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tiger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Pretty Rose Tree\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAh, Sunflower\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lily\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Garden of Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Little Vagabond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLondon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Human Abstract\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInfant Sorrow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Poison Tree\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Little Boy Lost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Little Girl Lost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Divine Image\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Cradle Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Schoolboy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Tirzah\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Voice of the Ancient Bard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873544016146,"sku":"9781534689459","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_55ae05d1-3a1b-4533-94fb-b14868ad4380.jpg?v=1737939895","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/songs-of-innocence-songs-of-experience-9781534689459","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}