1 gen 1794 anni - Blake self-publishes 'Songs of Experience'

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About the time of his mother’s death, B. began writing drafts of various lyric poems in Robert’s notebook. Akroyd says, “By the end of the year [1792] he had filled fourteen pages with 58 complete or incomplete poems. Out of these carefully transcribed verses came Songs of Experience. . . . These are not pure lyrics emanating from one voice but dramatizations of various mental states and attitudes—or, perhaps, dramatizations of the various selves that inhabited B” (Blake 141).

B. apparently originally conceived of Songs of Experience as direct satires of Songs of Innocence, poem for poem, but in the process he found more general possibilities of expression. At first he printed both of the Songs as separate series, but then linked them together with a new title page, “Songs of Innocence and Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.”

The combined Songs complicates the seemingly simple original Innocence poems. There are contraries and oppositions at every turn—not only is Experience etched on the back of Innocence, but B. used a different calligraphy and a different method of printing color.

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