Songs of Innocence and of Experience

About 35 minutes to listen to — 5,539 words, read aloud by a clear computer voice. It keeps playing with the screen locked, and works offline once the voice has downloaded.

"Songs of Innocence and of Experience" by William Blake is a collection of illustrated poems combined in 1794. Blake hand-engraved, printed, and colored unique artwork to accompany each poem, exploring childhood innocence and experience as contrary states of the human soul. Originally published as separate volumes, the combined work shows pastoral harmony alongside subtle dangers of naiveté.

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