Songs Of Innocence and Experience - William Blake > Reviews (5)

If you enjoy very linguistically difficult poetry then I am not sure that this is the collection for you. However, if you like deep poetry which is accessible to you and your children then this book is great. Many of the students at my school study it at A level and love it but this does not mean that this book is only for the academic, quite the opposite is true! Blake was writting for children which means his work is just as applicable to children as it is for the politically minded adult.

I studied this collection myself when I was at school and I still read it now. "My heart is at rest within my breast and everything else is still". I think it is a masterpiece of langauge, something which I have carried with me over the years as great poetry. My only wish is that I had one of the plates he made with his poetry on them!