LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”
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Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
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Lord Byron’s “Don Juan”
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Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe”
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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: -Around 1783, Blake’s first collection of poems, Poetical Sketches, was printed.
Detailed explanation-3: -Display caption. This is the title-page from Blake’s illuminated book of poems, Songs of Innocence, which he first printed and published in 1789.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Tyger, poem by William Blake, published in his Songs of Innocence and of Experience at the peak of his lyrical achievement.
Detailed explanation-5: -"London” is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Experience in 1794. It is one of the few poems in Songs of Experience that does not have a corresponding poem in Songs of Innocence. Blake lived in London so writes of it as a resident rather than a visitor.