William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience contain some of Blake's finest and best-loved poems, which are presented here in the form which best satisfied the high expectations of his poetic and artistic aspirations. The fifty-four plates which Blake originally etched and coloured by hand are beautifully reproduced, and each has the text of the poem printed on the facing page. Here the reader will find "The Lamb", "The Little Black Boy", "The Chimney Sweeper", "Infant Joy", "The Sick Rose", "The Tyger" and "Infant Sorrow".

With an Afterword by Peter Harness.


Blake'S Selected Poems

by William Blake

Published 1 February 2000