William Blake Audio

All good poetry, wrote Wordsworth, is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and this was to be one of the hallmarks of the Romantic Poets. With a dynamic spirit...

Naxos AudioBooks begins its new series of Great Poets with William Blake.

Milton: a Poem is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake.

Evocative, emotional, imaginative, personal, and powerful, these poems revolutionized the art form and still move and inspire us today.

William Blake's volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were "the two contrary states of the human soul," and that true innocence was impossible without experience.

Included in this collection are well-known poems such as: “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,” “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” Blake’s principal prose work, and an assortment of epigrams and short satire.

William Blake is known for some very mystical hard-to-understand poetry, but his "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" is very different from his other work.