The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Friday, September 27, 2024

Songs of Innocence and Experience


It took me many years to appreciate William Blake, and now I can barely imagine my life without him. 

Songs of Innocence and Experience has become almost a daily source of reference for the tension between the natural and the fallen, between virtue and vice. The pairing of the text with illustrations is a special joy. 

The images reproduced in this series of posts are from the 1826 copy at the Library of Congress ("Copy Z"), as they are the best resolution I have available. 

—5/2015 

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William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (1794) 





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