Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as precursors of the Romantic Age

  MEG – 01: BRITISH POETRY

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4. Critically examine Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience as precursors of the Romantic Age.

Answer.: Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of illustrated poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases: a few first copies were printed and illuminated by Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. Blake was also a painter before the creation of Songs of Innocence and Experience and had painted such subjects as Oberon, Titania, and Puck dancing with fairies.

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