Book 1990

Songs of innocence and of experience

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 1990

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Blake's collection of poetry organized around the two "states of human condition," namely innocence and experience. Divided into two books (with the first released slightly earlier), it addresses nature, childhood, and the destruction of both by economic, religious, and political forces.