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- Songs of Innocence, published in 1789, was Blake’s first great demonstration of “illuminated printing,” his unique technique of publishing both text and hand-coloured illustration
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The Songs of Innocence were published by Blake in 1789, and he produced a combined version of Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1794. The Songs are now often studied for their literary merit alone, but they were originally produced as illuminated books, engraved, hand-printed, and coloured by Blake himself.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, masterpieces of English lyric poetry, written and illustrated by William Blake. Songs of Innocence, published in 1789, was Blake’s first great demonstration of “illuminated printing,” his unique technique of publishing both text and hand-coloured illustration.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Originally, Blake illuminated and bound Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience separately. [2] It was only in 1794 that Blake combined the two sets of poems into a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. [1]
This "Introduction" opens William Blake's hugely influential collection Songs of Innocence (1789), a book of poems embodying one of what Blake called "the two contrary states of the human soul" (as contrasted with experience, which he would explore in the 1794 omnibus volume Songs of Innocence and of Experience).
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William Blake was an English poet, printmaker, and painter who was born in 1757 and died in 1827. In 1789, Blake published Songs of Innocence, a collection of 19 poems, and in 1793, he published Songs of Experience, a collection of 28 poems.
‘Introduction to the Songs of Innocence’ is the first poem in William Blake’s collection of poetry the ‘Songs of Innocence’ written in 1789. The poems present in this collection expresses a naive, childlike view of salvation, as most of the poems are addressed to children.
