by William Blake · Dover Publications Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486270517
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This edition of 'Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience' by William Blake, published by Dover Thrift Editions, presents a collection of lyrical poems that explore the duality of human experience. The poems of 'Songs of Innocence' capture the beauty and purity of childhood, while 'Songs of Experience' delves into the corruptions and disillusionments of adult life. This edition includes the full texts of the original 1794 edition, offering a comprehensive view of Blake's work.
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".
