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This section of the exhibition displays the greatest achievements of Blake's poetry and painting, particularly the great illuminated books: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Milton and Jerusalem.
 

 
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Encounter the Songs of Innocence and of Experience in a fully interactive format. Listen to the poems in specially-commissioned recordings. Look at the orginal engravings with pop-up notes. Read a summary and analysis of each poem.


Songs of Innocence & of Experience, Title-page See and hear the Songs of Innocence & of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy C, Gen. Title-page (1794) ©Library of Congress
 

Jerusalem

Blake regarded Jerusalem as his masterpiece, but his first biographer disparaged the epic poem as 'a chaos of words, names and images'. Click through our guide to Jerusalem to gain insight into Blake's magnificent, but also unfathomable, work.


Jerusalem, Plate 70 Go to Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Plate 70 (1804-20) © Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
 
 

To learn more about the works in this section of the exhibition, please click on the exhibition guide reproduced in the main Tate website: Blake themes 5

 

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