Songs of Innocence and of Experience

William Blake

Read The Clod and the Pebble beyond its opening stanza: the poem gives a second, opposed account of love to another speaker. Then read On Another’s Sorrow, following its questions about another person’s pain into the rest of the poem. Both selected supplied excerpts match this linked text under limited case, punctuation and spacing comparison; that does not independently authenticate every Blake-labelled record. The checked 1901 transcription is related reading, not a claim to reproduce the illustrated original plates.

Who it suits

Readers interested in love, compassion and the voices behind short poetic passages.

Reading experience

Moderate; concise poems with symbolic, religious and sometimes unsettling images. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.

The edition

Edition

London: R. Brimley Johnson; Guildford: A. C. Curtis, 1901; English transcription

Language

English

Publisher

R. Brimley Johnson (London); A. C. Curtis (Guildford)

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