Songs of Innocence and Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, 1789-1794

Blake was one of the finest craftsmen of his time, an artist for whom art and poetry were inextricably linked.

He was an independent and rebellious thinker, who abhorred pretension and falsity in others. His Songs of Innocence are products of this innocent imagination untainted by worldliness, while the Songs of Experience resulted from his feelings of indignation and pity for the suffering of mankind.

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