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thumb ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience'' is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul''. "Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "Paradise" and the "Fall." Blake's categories are modes of perception that tend to coordinate with a chronology that would become standard in Romanticism: childhood is a state of protected innocence rather than original sin, but not immune to the fallen world and its institutions. This world sometimes impinges on childhood itself, and in any event becomes known through "experience," a state of being marked by the loss of childhood vitality, by fear and inhibition, by social and political corruption, and by the manifold oppression of Church, State, and the ruling classes. The volume's "Contrary States" are sometimes signalled by patently repeated or contrasted titles: in ''Innocence'', ''Infant Joy'', in ''Experience'', ''Infant Sorrow''; in ''Innocence'', ''The Lamb'', in ''Experience'', ''The Fly'' and ''The Tyger''. The stark simplicity of poems such as ''The Chimney Sweeper'' and ''The Little Black Boy'' display Blake's acute sensibility to the realities of poverty and exploitation that accompanied the "Dark Satanic Mills" of the Industrial Revolution. ==''Songs of Innocence''== ''Songs of Innocence'' was originally a complete work first printed in 1789. It is a conceptual collection of 19 poems, engraved with artwork. The poems are each listed below: :''Introduction'' :''The Shepherd'' :''The Echoing Green'' :''The Lamb'' :''The Little Black Boy'' :''The Blossom'' :''The Chimney Sweeper'' :''The Little Boy lost'' :''The Little Boy found'' :''Laughing Song'' :''A Cradle Song'' :''The Divine Image'' :''Holy Thursday'' :''Night'' :''Spring'' :''Nurse's Song'' :''Infant Joy'' :''A Dream'' :''On Another's Sorrow'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Songs of Innocence and of Experience」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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