ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Songs of Innocence were published by Blake in 1789, and he produced a combined version of Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1794. The Songs are now often studied for their literary merit alone, but they were originally produced as illuminated books, engraved, hand-printed, and coloured by Blake himself.

Detailed explanation-2: -Songs of Experience is a poetry collection of 26 poems forming the second part of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The poems were published in 1794 (see 1794 in poetry).

Detailed explanation-3: -Introduction to the Songs of Experience is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was etched and published as part of his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1794.

Detailed explanation-4: -The poems transformed his era’s street ballads and rhymes for children into some of the purest lyrics in the English language. In 1794 Blake published Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.