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Title: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Volume 2) by William Blake, Andrew Lincoln ISBN: 0-691-06936-0 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 07 October, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Edition of Blake
Comment: I was recently lucky to see the Gutenburg to Gone With the Wind Exhibit in Austin, Texas recently. At that marvelous exhibit I got to see one of Blake's original editions of Songs of Innocence. After that, I (of course) had to find a copy with the amazing poems and the amazing artwork by Blake. This edition satisfied both criteria well. First of all, the poems are brilliant. Everybody has read such works as "Little Boy Lost," "Little Boy Found," "The Shepherd," "The Lamb," and "The Tyger." These poems are just as good as they are made out to be. Each poem is excrutiatingly simple (in the style of children's verse), and each has such depth. The artwork is all in this edition, too, and it is fabulous. The colors are exactly like those of Blake's. I really think that the poems should never be read without Blake's engravings. This is a marvelous book for poetry lovers to own. It is high quality and affordable. Any fan of Blake's should own this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: A book filled with childhood innocence & adult experiences.
Comment: William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience are both filled with amazing poetry. In Songs of Innocence, Blake reveals the true innocent and peaceful ways of a person's childhood. One of the most famous poems from this book is "The Lamb." This particular poem tells the story of a young boy asking an innocent lamb,"Who made thee?" "The Lamb" is religious and is very pleasant to read. Songs of Experience is a book filled with deceitful and cruel poems. The book's poems are based on the hardships of the "real" world. "The Tyger" is a famous poem from Songs of Experience. This is a contrary poem to "The Lamb." "The Tyger" also speaks of God the Creator of all things, but the poem has a dark theme and setting unlike "The Lamb." Songs of Innocence and Experience are two enjoyable works to read, and I would recommend them to anyone who enjoys poetry!
Rating: 5
Summary: poems of perspective from childhood and adulthood
Comment: William Blake is known for some very mystical hard-to-understand poetry, but his "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" is very different from that other work. Here in beautiful, almost child-like simplicity, he describes happy things like childhood and purity, as well as the darker realities of corruption and disillusionment. These poems are always spiritual and lyrical, full of heart and soul. The style is simple, yes, but the words and metaphors are profound and so is the wisdom, like in "The Human Abstract":
Pity would be no more
If we did not make somebody poor;
And mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
David Rehak
author of "Poems From My Bleeding Heart"
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Title: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake ISBN: 0192811673 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1975 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse by David Ferry ISBN: 0374523835 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (PELICAN SHAKESPEARE) by William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller ISBN: 0140714545 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Professor's House (Vintage Classic) by Willa Cather ISBN: 0679731806 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville ISBN: 0140390537 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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