A rare poetry book by William Blake has sold for a staggering £3.4m ($4.3m), making it one of the most valuable ever. The 1794 copy of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, illustrated and ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Blake's illustrated collection of poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...

I repeatedly made recourse to the Blakean framework of “Innocence” and “Experience” while reading and thinking about “William Blake ... he is wrong. Of Blake’s “Songs of Innocence ...

Though Hoare’s book takes up the events of Blake’s life—including his marriage and his lack of commercial success—it is not ...

William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 24 Nurse's Song At the age of thirteen, Blake was already penning poetry, prone to taking long walks ...

In 1789, William Blake (1757–1827) published his “Songs of Innocence,” and five years later, in 1794, he produced his “Songs of Experience” — binding them both together as “Songs of Innocence and of ...

This etching of a small face may be one of William Blake's ... be the work of a young William Blake. The British writer and artist is most famous for Songs of Innocence and Experience, a ...

"He who binds himself to a joy does the winged life destroy, but he who kisses it as it flies lives in Eternity's sun rise," for instance, is credited to one "William Blake Fruitcake." It's here ...

Burning Bright derives its title from the opening phrase of William Blake's great ... then press upon them his own copies of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Implausibly, predictably ...