William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience

from AntT

Despite their age, these poems really sing to me: "Get with child a mandrake root...."

from JoyE

This is a beautiful edition of Blake's poems. I've used this a lot in school.

from greeniezona

First of all, I would like to state in my defense that I picked up this slim volume days before I started freaking out about getting to 50 books by any means necessary. Ever since I catalogued my poetry shelf, I've been making an effort to get more of it read. Plus, in the story currently in my h...

from MMWiseheart

The contrast between the songs of innocence and the songs of experience is amazing. Blake is at the same time vague and descriptive. The subtleties in his meter are fantastic! I love reading these and analyzing the intention and the meaning behind them. There are so many points of view one could ...

from AmiloFinn

My copy of William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' features Blake's original plates on one page and his poems typed out on the other. The pictures are strange, ornate, exquisite and the poems are poignant and beautiful, about children and nature, the Chimney Sweeper and the Echoing...