POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE - FULL AudioBook 🎧📖 - Songs of Innocence and of Experience & The Book of Thel
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- Poems of William Blake by William Blake (1757-1827) - FULL AudioBook 🎧📖 Greatest🌟AudioBooks - Songs of Innocence and of Experience & The Book of Thel
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. Although Songs of Innocence was first published by itself in 1789, it is believed that Songs of Experience has always been published in conjunction with Innocence since its completion in 1794.
Songs of Innocence mainly consists of poems describing the innocence and joy of the natural world, advocating free love and a closer relationship with God, and most famously including Blake's poem The Lamb. Its poems have a generally light, upbeat and pastoral feel and are typically written from the perspective of children or written about them.
Directly contrasting this, Songs of Experience instead deals with the loss of innocence after exposure to the material world and all of its mortal sin during adult life, including works such as The Tyger. Poems here are darker, concentrating on more political and serious themes. Throughout both books, many poems fall into pairs, so that a similar situation or theme can be seen in both Innocence and Experience. Many of the poems appearing in Songs of Innocence have a counterpart in Songs of Experience with opposing perspectives of the world. The disastrous end of the French Revolution caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind, explaining much of the volume's sense of despair. Blake also believed that children lost their innocence through exploitation and from a religious community which put dogma before mercy. He did not, however, believe that children should be kept from becoming experienced entirely. In truth, he believed that children should indeed become experienced but through their own discoveries, which is reflected in a number of these poems. Blake believed that innocence and experience were "the two contrary states of the human soul", and that true innocence was impossible without experience.
The Book of Thel is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably worked on in the period 1788 to 1790. It is illustrated by his own plates, and is relatively short and easy to understand, compared to his later prophetic books. The metre is a fourteen-syllable line. It was preceded by Tiriel, which Blake left in manuscript. A few lines from Tiriel were incorporated into The Book of Thel. This book consists of eight plates executed in illuminated printing. 15 copies of original print of 1789-1793 are known. Two copies have watermark of 1815, which are more elaborately colored than the others.
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Chapter listing:
01 -- Songs of Innocence - 00:00:10
02 -- Songs of Experience - 00:19:47
03 -- The Book of Thel 00-04 -- 00:43:56
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Read by Sam Stinson.
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Songs of Innocence
Introduction - 0:20
The Sheppard - 1:10
The Ecchoing Green - 1:42
The Lamb - 2:47
The Little Black Boy - 3:39
The Blossom - 5:18
The Chimney Sweeper - 5:46
The Little Boy Lost - 7:25
The Divine Image - 10:41
Holy Thursday - 11:44
Night - 12:47
Spring - 14:47
Nurse's Song - 15:36
Infant Joy - 16:30
A Dream - 17:01
On Another's Sorrow - 17:59
Songs of Experience
Introduction - 20:06
Earth's Answer - 20:52
The Clod and the Pebble - 21:50
Holy Thursday - 22:30
The Little Girl Lost - 23:16
The Little Girl Found - 25:04
The Chimney Sweeper - 26:56
Nurse's Song - 27:38
The Sick Rose - 28:10
The Fly - 28:35
The Angel - 29:09
The Tyger - 29:59
My Pretty Rose Tree - 31:09
Ah, Sunflower - 31:37
The Lily - 32:07
The Garden of Love - 32:28
The Little Vagabond - 33:31
London - 34:34
The Human Abstract - 35:24
Infant Sorrow - 36:30
A Poison Tree - 36:58
A Little Boy Lost - 37:45
A Little Girl Lost - 38:58
The Schoolboy - 40:17
To Tirzah - 41:43
The Voice of the Ancient Bard - 42:36
Appendix (A Divine Image) - 43:15
The Book of Thel
0 - Thel's Motto - 44:15
1 - 44:34
2 - 48:06
3 - 50:43
4 - 53:11
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amazing work that i am still in awe of. Our talented music teacher back in my school days taught us the song versions of some of the poems for a musical. it was phenomenal, i am so blessed to have been a part of that cast. the hexagon theatre was sold out for all the nights we performed. such great memories. I still remember the lyrics . what a joy
amazing, I love William Blake. He understood human nature and God!
My first memory of enjoying literature is 'The Tyger.' I was five and the teacher showed us the poem then we just drew tigers.
He who desires but breeds not pestilence
So it is written
looool wtf
What should I call thee?
You can call me V
"I have no name, I am but two days old."
"Where there's a will there's a way"
DMC 6: Nero reads some of his favorites as a taunt
@@kylekiske_ that’s honestly genius
people don't have to watch this video if they don't want to. I'm enjoying it, except for the disrespectful comments. Thank you!
Well said, Kate.
Yes. People are forgetting these are volunteers. Silly.
Love William Blake's poetry!
Very cool stuff, I've always been a big fan of William Blake. I've been doing a lot of readings of his poetry myself recently after finding a really nice book with not only his complete poetry but also that of John Donne.
Excellent! Reader does a fantastic job. Best Blake readings on TH-cam for sure.
His poetry has great meaning in terms of feelings, ideas and how he saw the world and is rich in vocabulary.
Thank you for recording.
Songs of Experience:
Earth's Answer - 20:52
The Little Girl Lost - 23:16
The Little Girl Found - 25:04
The Sick Rose - 28:10
Nurse's Song - 27:38
My Pretty Rose Tree - 31:09
The Angel - 29:09
Ah, Sunflower - 31:37
The Lily - 32:07
The Garden of Love - 32:28
A Poison Tree - 36:58
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Thank you!
Thank you, added to a playlist.... Let me know when the website is up...
Thank you very much :)
thanks for this..
Who's here for V?
Me
Pynchon?
*Jackpot*
I guess I get to see it with my own eyes...if it really is you.
@@gimmeallurmoney3883 *so it is written*
Whos better!!! Wasn't a question... 😎
The voice discomforts me and the mic pops don't help. Thanks for having a go though.
Its good to hear a little more diversity - a male voice, but I believe most native speakers of English here, especially Literature academic readers, would be more able to reveal the several levels of Mr Blake, especially his musicality and wit... check out most classically-trained Brit actors as well...still in a league by themselves...
I appreciate the efforts of the readers here, but I hope for more pros to do proper service to the great works here...
Vergil aprueba esto
Lovely.... :')
I hear Jim Morrisons poems
Its obvious he drew inspiration from Blakes poems.
Shared.
I'ma let you finish, but Jim Dale has the best audio voice of all time.
All joking aside, this isn't a terrible recording. It helps to read along with him.
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Watched this video with subtitles on mute for the best experience.
Defeats the point of LISTENING to an AUDIO book, if you wanted to read william blake you could find it on the internet.
thank you this ai voice is 💀💀
#1k baby
Should be an English voice reading, very grating.
This is great voice even if it is not English.
I just googled this after hearing the poems read to Violins in the Gucci runway show-it just shows how a bad reader can ruin even the most poignant poetry
Shame on you for first discovering Blake in that way.
W.B: From The First Generation Of English Romantics~ Brilliant & Wild~
WB was enthralled by Blake's engaging verses and the beauty of his poetic forms. WB might best be described as the last of the romantics ???
'And did he walk upon this precious land' Was this written by Blake? Does this song refer to Jesus?
Yes and yes. The poem is called "Jerusalem".
For all the naysayers, please visit librivox.org/ and record your own version of a 50 min piece of work. I can assure you that it will take you weeks if not months to complete. But, please get this person to erase this from TH-cam, and replace it with your version, tout suite. Sarcasm is a lost art. Just to save those not in the know the trouble.
Sarcasm is "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt". Sarcasm may employ ambivalence, although sarcasm is not necessarily ironic. Most noticeable in spoken word, sarcasm is mainly distinguished by the inflection with which it is spoken and is largely context-dependent.
😂😂😂😂 totally I always appreciate what's free listen to him off and on so many years no one else will do ❣️
Killer! I usually listen to punk rock, death metal. like jumping off a cliff blindfolded and never hitting ground.
Wonder if Jim Morrison would dig this if alive
These poems existed long before he was born and are popular so he likely read them.
I like "little black boy"
Id say not great and repetitive
Not fear harm
Neville Goddard brings me here!!
WHATS UHHHHHH UP WITH THE LITTLE BLACK BOY POEM????
Its beautiful
this has to be the worst poetry reader i have heard. sad for this person to murder such wonderful works.
Mourning Chair It is extremely hard to read a Blake poem , especially Auguries of Innocence, and do it justice.
Agree, but give the attempt a break. It's harder than you think.
i was able to do so while he was reading it. perhaps, i have a natural knack for it. its all timing and voice change - creating the rhythm
. much love
Oh shit - not another LibriVox opus! Along with others I salute their motives but am repelled by their readers who may well be enthusiastic but have no idea how to read verse or text.
The one ok performance (though initially I had dismissed it as lack lustre - perhaps my expectations are not so great now) is Joyce's Dubliners - read by an Irishman with some vitality. Wm Blake was a Londoner and if not technically a Cockney would sound interesting if read by one.
The bizarre, crude and wholly inappropriate stressing of words is in this recording frankly bloody awful. If such intonation came from the lips of a five or six year old it would be charming. But from the mouth of an adult - the thought crosses my mind that the Death Sentence should be reintroduced for such an abomination.
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American voice. arghhhhhhhhh
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Why are these readings always so bland...where's alec guiness when you need him?
Just because you can rhyme dosent mean you can be a poet. I listened to five minutes of this and I'm certain it's not what I'm looking for
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Not every thing is for every one. If we were all the same, what good would that be.
Librivox audio-recordings STINK, without exception.
Ugh, Kermit the Frog reads poetry. No thanks.
Not nice