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ENGRAVED DESIGNS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
177. Principle 5.
Above the title, children being taught in a tent. Below the text,
the Poetic Genius, a nude form with a lyre, running swiftly. The
Religions of all Nations are derived from each Nations different reception
of the Poetic Genius which is everywhere calVd the Spirit of Prophecy.
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178. Principle 6.
Above the title, the tablets of the Law. Below the text, a draped
figure groping into darkness with outstretched hands. The Jewish &
Christian Testaments are An original derivation from the Poetic Genius.
This is necessary from the confined nature of bodily sensation.
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179. Principle 7.
Above the title, a male and a female figure reclining, roused by a figure
with outstretched arms. Below the text, a bird flying through the sky.
As all men are alike (tho> infinitely various) So all Religions & as all similars
have one source The true Man is the source, he being the Poetic Genius.
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[180-235]. Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Twenty-one copies of the separate Songs of Innocence are described
by Keynes, and one more (complete) copy has recently come to
light. They vary in the number of the plates, as well as in the
arrangement of them. Other copies form part of the combined
Songs of Innocence and Experience, issued in 1794. The order here
followed is that of the complete work, as given by Keynes, who
described twenty-three copies of it in his book. There are two copies
of the complete work in the Print Room, and one (uncoloured) in the
Library of the British Museum.
The Little Girl Lost and The Little Girl Found were originally in
The Songs of Innocence, but after 1793 these were transferred to The
Songs of Experience; and about 1814, according to Keynes, The
Schoolboy and The Voice of the Ancient Bard were also transferred.
All of these poems, except the last, are written in roman script. The
Songs of Experience are, like all the later books, written in italic,
except The Tyger, London, A Poison Tree, Ah! Sunflower, the first
stanza of A Little Girl Lost, and The Schoolboy ; the discarded A
Divine Image also is in roman. Probably these were the earliest
engraved of The Songs of Experience.
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177. Principle 5.
Above the title, children being taught in a tent. Below the text,
the Poetic Genius, a nude form with a lyre, running swiftly. The
Religions of all Nations are derived from each Nations different reception
of the Poetic Genius which is everywhere calVd the Spirit of Prophecy.
2iXi| in.
178. Principle 6.
Above the title, the tablets of the Law. Below the text, a draped
figure groping into darkness with outstretched hands. The Jewish &
Christian Testaments are An original derivation from the Poetic Genius.
This is necessary from the confined nature of bodily sensation.
2i X if in.
179. Principle 7.
Above the title, a male and a female figure reclining, roused by a figure
with outstretched arms. Below the text, a bird flying through the sky.
As all men are alike (tho> infinitely various) So all Religions & as all similars
have one source The true Man is the source, he being the Poetic Genius.
2^X i| in.
[180-235]. Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Twenty-one copies of the separate Songs of Innocence are described
by Keynes, and one more (complete) copy has recently come to
light. They vary in the number of the plates, as well as in the
arrangement of them. Other copies form part of the combined
Songs of Innocence and Experience, issued in 1794. The order here
followed is that of the complete work, as given by Keynes, who
described twenty-three copies of it in his book. There are two copies
of the complete work in the Print Room, and one (uncoloured) in the
Library of the British Museum.
The Little Girl Lost and The Little Girl Found were originally in
The Songs of Innocence, but after 1793 these were transferred to The
Songs of Experience; and about 1814, according to Keynes, The
Schoolboy and The Voice of the Ancient Bard were also transferred.
All of these poems, except the last, are written in roman script. The
Songs of Experience are, like all the later books, written in italic,
except The Tyger, London, A Poison Tree, Ah! Sunflower, the first
stanza of A Little Girl Lost, and The Schoolboy ; the discarded A
Divine Image also is in roman. Probably these were the earliest
engraved of The Songs of Experience.
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