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Songs of Innocence

By William Blake · 1789

A collection of poems exploring childhood, innocence, faith, nature and social vulnerability through simple language and symbolic imagery.

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William Blake · 1789
Songs of Innocence

A collection of poems exploring childhood, innocence, faith, nature and social vulnerability through simple language and symbolic imagery.

William Blake · 1794
Songs of Experience

A collection examining experience, repression, social injustice and lost innocence through symbolic poems about religion, childhood, authority and desire.

William Blake · 1803
Auguries of Innocence

A sequence of aphoristic verses linking everyday acts with wider questions of innocence, suffering, injustice, perception and spiritual consequence.

William Blake · 1804
Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion

A visionary epic exploring humanity’s division and spiritual restoration through Albion, Jerusalem, Los and Blake’s symbolic mythology.

William Blake · 1808
And did those feet in ancient time (Jerusalem)

A visionary poem invoking Jerusalem as an ideal of spiritual and social renewal to be built within England.

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