This paper is a brief assessment for the main reasons that stand behind Blake's composing these paired poems with common and opposite titles in his book of Songs of Innocence and of Experience.Īlthough William Blake was highly eclectic and drawing from multifarious sources, religious system, philosophical thoughts and traditions, the Bible was Blake's most predominant concern. Throughout the book of these Songs, there are many poems in Songs of Innocence which have counterparts in Songs of Experience, often, the relationship between these paired poems is being indicated either by common titles, as with the two Introductions, the two Chimney Sweepers, the two Holy Thursdays, the two Nurse's Songs, The Divine Image and A Divine Image, The Little Boy Lost and A Little Boy Lost or by opposite titles, as with The Lamb and The Tyger, Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow, The Divine Image and Human Abstract.
His Songs of Innocence and of Experience proved to be the most popular of Blake's illuminated texts and is now regarded as a seminal work of English Romantic literature. His work has fascinated and bewildered readers ever since. He is an artist, a lyric poet, a mystic and a visionary.
His writing combines a variety of styles. Blake died, poor and in obscurity on 12 August 1827.William Blake is a great pre-romantic poet as well as a painter and printer and one of the greatest engravers in English history. His religious beliefs were also idiosyncratic and he reported seeing visions of angels at various points in his life. Blake's political beliefs were controversial for the times he supported the French Revolution, condemned slavery and the subjugation of women. He developed his own practice of illustrating his poetical works with his own etchings, producing beautifully illuminated editions. In the early 1800s he wrote his epic prophetic poems Milton and Jerusalem. In 1789 he published Songs of Innocence which was followed by Songs of Experience in 1793. In 1782 he married Catherine Boucher who was to become a great support to him throughout his life.His first collection of poems, Poetical Sketches was published in 1793.
In 1779 he became a student at the Royal Academy. Instead of being sent to school he was given drawing classes from a young age.When he was fourteen he was apprenticed to the engraver James Basire and he later went on to work as an engraver, illustrator, printer and drawing teacher. William Blake was born on 28 November 1757 in London.
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