Support New Wellness Living and this 'New Thought Series': https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=RA67BREVTYZKA <br /> <br />Google "New Wellness Living" to listen to other videos in this "New Thought Series". <br /> <br />Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. <br /> <br />"Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "Paradise" and the "Fall." Blake's categories are modes of perception that tend to coordinate with a chronology that would become standard in Romanticism: childhood is a state of protected innocence rather than original sin, but not immune to the fallen world and its institutions. This world sometimes impinges on childhood itself, and in any event becomes known through "experience," a state of being marked by the loss of childhood vitality, by fear and inhibition, by social and political corruption, and by the manifold oppression of Church, State, and the ruling classes. The volume's "Contrary States" are sometimes signaled by patently repeated or contrasted titles: in Innocence, Infant Joy, in Experience, Infant Sorrow; in Innocence, The Lamb, in Experience, The Fly and The Tyger. The stark simplicity of poems such as The Chimney Sweeper and The Little Black Boy display Blake's acute sensibility to the realities of poverty and exploitation that accompanied the "dark satanic mills" of the Industrial Revolution. <br /> <br />William Blake was an English painter, poet and printmaker. Blake is considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. <br /> <br /> <br />Works by William Blake include: <br /> <br />Illuminated books: <br /> <br /> c.1788: All Religions are One <br /> There is No Natural Religion <br /> 1789: Songs of Innocence <br /> The Book of Thel <br /> 1790–1793: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell <br /> 1793–1795: Continental prophecies <br /> 1793: Visions of the Daughters of Albion <br /> America a Prophecy <br /> 1794: Europe a Prophecy <br /> The First Book of Urizen <br /> Songs of Experience <br /> 1795: The Book of Los <br /> The Song of Los <br /> The Book of Ahania <br /> c.1804–c.1811: Milton <br /> 1804–1820: Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion <br /> <br />Non-illuminated: <br /> <br /> 1783: Poetical Sketches <br /> 1784-5: An Island in the Moon <br /> 1789: Tiriel <br /> 1791: The French Revolution <br /> 1792: A Song of Liberty <br /> 1797: The Four Zoas <br /> <br /> <br />Source: Wikipedia.org
