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    Songs of Innocence and of Experience
    Songs of Innocence and of Experience
    Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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    Songs of Innocence and of Experience

    By Mark Sheeky

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    William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were first published together in 1794. This new edition includes all of Blake's classic poems from those volumes, each with a new full colour watercolour illustration by 21st century surrealist artist Mark Sheeky. The text has been carefully transcribed from an original copy of Blake's work, retaining all of the original spellings such as 'Tyger' in Tyger Tyger. The result is a new definitive version of this English classic; a visionary artwork that combines 18th century text and 21st century imagery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Sheeky
    Release dateApr 27, 2021
    ISBN9781999980023
    Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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    Mark Sheeky

    Mark Sheeky (b. 1972) is an award winning artist and contemporary Renaissance Man; an oil painter, music composer, performance pianist, poet, author, broadcaster, and more. His childhood passion was computer game design and programming, composing music on software of his own design. In 2004 he began oil painting and decided shortly after to devote his life to art. Sheeky's primary output as a visual artist consists of highly crafted oil paintings of contemporary surrealism and his work forms part of the British National Art Collection. In 2014 Mark illustrated William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, and a year later his first novel, The Many Beautiful Worlds of Death, was published.

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      Songs of Innocence and of Experience - Mark Sheeky

      Words by William Blake

      Illustrations by Mark Sheeky

      Songs of Innocence and of Experience

      Words by William Blake,  from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, c. 1794.

      Watercolour illustrations by Mark Sheeky, painted at Event City, Trafford Centre, Manchester, September 2012.

      Typesetting and formatting by Mark Sheeky.

      A similar version of this book was published in 2014 by Pentangel Books with the title Songs of Life.

      The 1st print edition of this book was published in 2018 by Pentangel Books.

      This ebook edition was created in April 2021. The text and images are as appear in the print book, but the cover was redesigned for 'portrait' orientation, rather than the 'landscape' format of the original book.

      Copyright ©2021 by Mark Sheeky.

      Mark Sheeky asserts his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, duplicated, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means without explicit written permission from the publisher. Any person who performs any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and/or additional civil claims for damages.

      Transcriber's Note

      Where clearly discernible, original spellings and original capitalisation have been retained; eg. words like shaved are reproduced as shav'd where the latter is used in the text. In some cases, apostrophes are absent in the original text. For example the contraction I'll is rendered as Ill. This may be due to printing process limitations of the time rather than deliberate intent or omission by the author. In this reproduction new apostrophes have been inserted, including possessive apostrophes. Ampersands are reproduced as per the original text.

      End of line punctuation is frequently irregular or indiscernible in the original text, with often little visible difference between none,

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