Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of poems by William Blake. "Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton\'s existential-mythic states of "Paradise" and "Fall..
A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.
It appeared in two phases.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of poems by William Blake