Songs of Innocence and Experience and selected other pictures

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Songs of Innocence and Experienceand selected
other pictures

• William Blake

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Terms important in the study of Blake
Innocence--a state of being prior to the
awareness of evil. The symbol of this state is
the child. Experience--a state of being in which
one is trapped by the evidence of the senses and
the awareness of the world as it is. The symbol
of this state is the father, who for Blake
represented rules and repressive common
sense. Blake called these the contrary states
of the human soul.
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Blake Self-Portrait
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Frontispiece Songs of Innocence
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The Chimney Sweeper Innocence
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The Chimney Sweeper Experience
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Introduction Songs of Experience
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London Songs of Experience
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The Ancient of Days from Jerusalem
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Newton
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Glad Day Blake was fond of this image and used it
in several illuminated books.