Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Synopsis

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a complete Table of Contents of the included poems, see the 'Questions' section below. This book appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William 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. The work compiles two contrasting but directly related books of poetry by William Blake.