Track | Title | Length |
Songs of Innocence | ||
1 | 01 - Introduction to Songs of Innocence | 1:11 |
2 | 02 - The Shepherd | 0:37 |
3 | 03 - The Echoing Green | 0:50 |
4 | 04 - The Lamb | 1:00 |
5 | 05 - The Little Black Boy | 1:44 |
6 | 06 - The Blossom | 0:36 |
7 | 07 - The_Chimney-Sweeper (Innocence) | 1:46 |
8 | 08 - The Little Boy Lost | 0:40 |
9 | 09 - The Little Boy Found | 0:36 |
10 | 10 - Laughing Song | 0:55 |
11 | 11 - A Cradle Song (Innocence) | 1:46 |
12 | 12 - The Divine Image | 1:10 |
13 | 13 - Holy Thursday (Innocence) | 1:18 |
14 | 14 - Night | 2:10 |
15 | 15 - Spring | 1:00 |
16 | 16 - Nurse's_Song (Innocence) | 1:10 |
17 | 17 - Infant Joy | 0:47 |
18 | 18 - A Dream | 3:04 |
19 | 19 - On Another's Sorrow | 1:56 |
Songs of Experience | ||
20 | 20 - Introduction to Songs of Experience | 1:11 |
21 | 21 - Earth's Answer | 1:17 |
22 | 22 - The Clod and the Pebble | 0:50 |
23 | 23 - Holy Thursday (Experience) | 1:01 |
24 | 24 - The Little Girl Lost | 1:57 |
25 | 25 - The Little Girl Found | 2:02 |
26 | 26 - The Chimney Sweeper (Experience) | 0:57 |
27 | 27 - The Nurse's Song (Experience) | 0:42 |
28 | 28 - The Sick Rose | 0:32 |
29 | 29 - The Fly | 0:43 |
30 | 30 - The Angel | 1:05 |
31 | 31 - The Tiger | 1:22 |
32 | 32 - My Pretty Rose Tree | 0:39 |
33 | 33 - Ah Sunflower | 0:39 |
34 | 34 - The Lily | 0:29 |
35 | 35 - The Garden of Love | 0:52 |
36 | 36 - The Little Vagabond | 1:20 |
37 | 37 - London | 1:08 |
38 | 38 - The Human Abstract | 1:14 |
39 | 39 - Infant Sorrow | 0:42 |
40 | 40 - A Poison Tree | 1:04 |
41 | 41 - A Little Boy Lost | 1:20 |
42 | 42 - A Little Girl Lost | 1:41 |
43 | 43 - A Divine Image | 0:47 |
44 | 44 - A Cradle Song (Experience) | 1:06 |
45 | 45 - The Schoolboy | 0:50 |
46 | 46 - To Tirzah | 1:02 |
47 | 47 - The Voice of the Ancient Bard | 0:49 |
Notes
Running Time: 54 minutes
Read by: D. S. Harvey
Artwork
Cover: Cover of Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Inset: Songs of Innocence
Inset: Songs of Experience
Inset: Portrait of William Blake, 1807, by Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845)
Label: Illustration of The Ecchoing Green
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of 45 poems by English poet William Blake. Songs of Innocence is the first part of the collection and appeared in 1789 with engraved illustrations by Blake. The second part, Songs of Experience, also illustrated, was added in 1794 when Blake published the whole under the full title of Songs of Innocence and Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. The categories of innocence and experience are states of mind and ways of seeing that roughly correspond to the classical model of “paradise” and “fall”, as in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Blake helped formulate the then contemporary Romantic notion of childhood as a state of innocence, without fear, inhibition, or corruption; and adulthood as a contrary and fallen state of original sin prey to oppression, corruption, and power. The opposition is reinforced by poems with like titles and contrasting themes in each part. The poems are short, simple, and acutely sensitive to both joys of life and the harsh realities of class and poverty in the emerging Industrial Revolution.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0683422134500 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0682550992426 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Box |
Author | William Blake (1757 - 1827) |
Recording | |
Read by | D. S. Harvey |
Length | 52 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Author: William Blake
- Product Code: DB-1132
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