![]() ![]() Songs of Innocence and Experience showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul to give it its full title combined two separate volumes that he had released earlier. Caught between these two traditions, Blake remains a genius who cannot truly be classified under any category. ![]() The Neo-classicism of the 18th century was fading and the Romantic Movement was yet to fully emerge. Additionally, he was writing at a time of literary transition. Since he displays both his art and his literary skills together and himself considered them inseparable, it was not easy to review his books as literature or art alone. As this was extremely laborious and time consuming, there were very few editions of each book.īlake's works pose an unusual problem. He himself inked each plate and printed each individual page, hand painted the illustrations and bound the pages to create each single volume. Being a gifted artist, poet and printmaker, he undertook to personally publish all his work himself through a very painstaking but highly artistic process of etching, thereby transferring his drawings and poems individually onto copper plates by hand. ![]() In 1789, William Blake released a limited edition of the book. “ Tiger, tiger, burning bright/In the forests of the night/ What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” These often quoted lines are part of The Tiger in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. ![]()
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