Songs of Innocence and of Experience

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• Publisher: Urban Romantics
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781910150511
• Edition: 0

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of poems by William Blake showing the two contrary states of the human soul. Poems from both books have been set to music by many composers, including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Joseph Holbrooke, Sven-David Sandstrom, Benjamin Britten, Jacob ter Veldhuis, John Tavener, Jah Wobble, Tangerine Dream and others. This Urban Romantics edition includes both original books.

Table of contents

• BOOK I. SONGS OF INNOCENCE
• INTRODUCTION
• THE SHEPHERD
• THE ECHOING GREEN
• THE LAMB
• THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
• THE BLOSSOM
• THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
• THE LITTLE BOY LOST
• THE LITTLE BOY FOUND
• LAUGHING SONG
• A CRADLE SONG
• THE DIVINE IMAGE
• HOLY THURSDAY
• NIGHT
• SPRING
• NURSE’S SONG
• INFANT JOY
• A DREAM
• ON ANOTHER’S SORROW
• BOOK II. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
• INTRODUCTION
• EARTH’S ANSWER
• THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE
• HOLY THURSDAY
• THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
• THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND
• THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
• NURSE’S SONG
• THE SICK ROSE
• THE FLY
• THE ANGEL
• THE TIGER
• MY PRETTY ROSE TREE
• AH, SUNFLOWER
• THE LILY
• THE GARDEN OF LOVE
• THE LITTLE VAGABOND
• LONDON
• THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
• INFANT SORROW
• A POISON TREE
• A LITTLE BOY LOST
• A LITTLE GIRL LOST
• A DIVINE IMAGE
• A CRADLE SONG
• THE SCHOOLBOY
• TO TIRZAH
• THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD