Lectures on William Blake, the Poet and the Artist Udemy

Providence eLearning English Professor William Lasseter analyzes William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" along with several additional poems and paintings. Published first in 1789, Songs of Innocence revealed one half of a two part thesis by Blake on the state of human perception. Blake saw the world as composed of two contrary and complementary states, calling them respectively "Innocence and "Experience. "Songs of Experience" was bound together with "Songs of Innocence" and printed in 1794. In it Blake sets forth the second part of his two part thesis on human perception.

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Providence eLearning English Professor William Lasseter analyzes William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" along with several additional poems and paintings. Published first in 1789, Songs of Innocence revealed one half of a two part thesis by Blake on the state of human perception. Blake saw the world as composed of two contrary and complementary states, calling them respectively "Innocence and "Experience. "Songs of Experience" was bound together with "Songs of Innocence" and printed in 1794. In it Blake sets forth the second part of his two part thesis on human perception.

Updated on 26 December, 2017
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