Songs of Innocence
eBook - ePub

Songs of Innocence

  1. 64 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Songs of Innocence

About this book

William Blake's innovations in engraving techniques brought about his brilliant synthesis of visual and poetic art and signaled the beginning of his famous "Illuminated Books," of which the Songs of Innocence was the first and most popular. Unfortunately, Blake's vision is generally known to the world in amputated form: because of the difficulty and expense of reproducing his original conception, most editions of Blake's work offer only the printed text, with no trace of the visual counterpart so essential to his "System."
This new, facsimile edition of the Songs of Innocence reproduces Blake's color plates in a fashion which the artist himself would have approved. The 31 plates — printed on facing pages which are the same size of Blake's own first edition — offer one of the more brightly colored versions of this significant volume, no two copies of which are the same. As a special aid to readers, a typographical reprint of the text of poems follows the plates. Such classic "songs" as "The Lamb" and "The Chimney Sweeper" are now accessible to all in the symbiotic union of poem and picture that is crucial to a total understating of Blake's mind and art.

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Information

eBook ISBN
9780486140582
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Publisher’s Note
  6. Frontispiece
  7. Text
  8. Introduction
  9. The Shepherd
  10. Infant Joy
  11. On Another’s Sorrow
  12. The School Boy
  13. Holy Thursday
  14. Nurse’s Song
  15. Laughing Song
  16. The Little Black Boy
  17. The Voice of the Ancient Bard
  18. The Ecchoing Green
  19. The Chimney Sweeper
  20. The Divine Image
  21. A Dream
  22. The Little Girl Lost
  23. The Little Girl Found
  24. The Little Boy Lost
  25. The Little Boy Found
  26. A Cradle Song
  27. Spring
  28. The Blossom
  29. The Lamb
  30. Night