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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