![]() ![]() Its deep, saturated hues and distinctive ornamental borders (found on only one other copy) contrast with the lighter, paler colors of editions printed three decades earlier. Blake produced only twenty-four copies of the combined volume this page comes from one of the last, prepared about 1825 for the painter and printmaker Edward Calvert (1799–1883). Published during the height of the Terror, the French Revolution left its mark on the second book. The pastoral poems in Innocence express religious faith and acceptance, and exhibit fine detail and flowing lines the bardic verses in Experience, by contrast, convey disillusionment and anger, and employ bolder outlines. Innocence and Experience contrast human existence, before and after the Fall. Although its small, colorful format recalls a children's book, its message is sophisticated and complex. ![]() Blake originally produced this small, richly illustrated collection of short lyric verses as two separate books, in 17, then combined them into a single volume in the latter year. One of Blake's best-known verses, "The Tyger," comes from the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. ![]()
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