by William Blake · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437606682
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«Canciones de Inocencia y de Experiencia» is William Blake's poetry collection, published by Ediciones Cátedra in a bilingual edition within the Letras Universales series (176 pages, in Spanish).
The work juxtaposes the two contrary states of the human soul: innocence, associated with childhood and a harmonious vision of the world, and experience, marked by social reality, suffering, and the loss of that pure gaze. Blake, poet and artist of English Romanticism, conceives both states as incompatible social situations and develops them through a symbolic language linked to his particular mystical vision and creative energy.
It is part of the Letras Universales series, where it occupies volume 68. This paperback edition includes a bilingual translation by José Luis Caramés and Santiago González Corugedo.
Recommended for readers interested in English Romantic poetry and in annotated editions of classics with original text and facing translation.
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".
