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, between reason and imagination, between all the forces at work within us. 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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