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Title: Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake ISBN: 0-19-281089-8 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)
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"
Rating: 5
Summary: Blake's most popular illuminated works in a fine edition
Comment: These are Blake's most popular and accessible works, by far. The poems combined with the wonderful drawings make powerful and memorable statements that stay in your heart and mind. Several, such as "The Tyger", "The Chimney Sweeper", and "London", are very well known. Each of us has our own personal favorites and love turning to them again and again.
One of issues in buying an edition of these works is that they exist in a variety of colorings, and orders. I would recommend this edition for several reasons. The selection of the King's College Copy is one of the most uniformly delightful or the copies Blake (or his wife) colored. Also, the reproduction is of very high quality. Each plate is on a right hand page with the text in print on the left hand page (in case you have problem reading the plate). Even thought the book is in a large format, the plates are reproduced in their actual size (which is surprisingly modest).
There are also a dozen plates provided from other editions. However, I would recommend that you pick up other editions based on other copies. The variety of schemes Blake used in coloring the plates is quite interesting and, well, illuminating.
The second half of the book is commentary on the 54 plates of this copy. There is an introductory essay and a list of works cited in the commentary.
It really is a beautiful reproduction and a joy to have on my shelf.
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Title: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake ISBN: 0192811673 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1975 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller ISBN: 0140714545 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Gilgamesh : A New Rendering in English Verse by David Ferry ISBN: 0374523835 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Euripides V: Electra, the Phoenician Women, the Bacchae (The Complete Greek Tragedies) by Euripides, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore, Richard Lattimore ISBN: 0226307840 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: June, 1959 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville ISBN: 0140390537 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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