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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 821.7 EAN: 9780192810892 ISBN: 0192810898 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 226 Publication Date: October 27, 1977 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items:
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 Rating:  - gemGorgeous poetry and illustrations by Blake. A must have for your library and a treasure to share with your children. Rating:  - The Other BlakeSorry, all, I'm not much of a poetry fan. I like "Tyger," "Garden of Love," and a few others, but I can't add to the scholarship on his verse. I am, however, fascinated by his use of relief etching in creating these pages. It's a rare process even now, and was revealed to Blake in a vision (plus a lot of painstaking experimentation). It's the process by which he shaped each letter, reversed, in the printing plate, plus much of the 'illumination' on each page. The preface ... Read More Rating: - poems of perspective from childhood and adulthoodWilliam Blake is known for some very mystical hard-to-understand poetry, but his "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" is very different from that other work. Here in beautiful, almost child-like simplicity, he describes happy things like childhood and purity, as well as the darker realities of corruption and disillusionment. These poems are always spiritual and lyrical, full of heart and soul. The style is simple, yes, but the words and metaphors are profound and so is the wisdom, like in ... Read More Rating: - Blake's most popular illuminated works in a fine editionThese are Blake's most popular and accessible works, by far. The poems combined with the wonderful drawings make powerful and memorable statements that stay in your heart and mind. Several, such as "The Tyger", "The Chimney Sweeper", and "London", are very well known. Each of us has our own personal favorites and love turning to them again and again. One of issues in buying an edition of these works is that they exist in a variety of colorings, and orders. I would recommend this edition ... Read More Rating: - The Oxford Paperbacks edition is superbThere are larger, more luxurious graphical editions of Blake's two most popular works but the Oxford SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE is perhaps the most affordable and convenient. After a short introductory piece which makes the reader expect a pastoral mood, SONGS OF INNOCENCE opens with "The Shepherd", and the reader is immediately acquainted with Blake's style: deceptively simple, but filled with metaphor and allusion. Many of the poems speak of the solace of Christianity, but Blake ... Read More 
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