The Lamb (poem)
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"The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy C, 1789, 1794 (Library of Congress), object 8, "The Lamb" currently held at the Library of Congress
Songs of Innocence copy B 1789 Library of Congress object 29 "The Lamb"
Songs of Innocence, copy G, 1789 (Yale Center for British Art) object 8 "The Lamb"
Songs of Innocence copy U 1789 The Houghton Library object 11 "The Lamb"
William Blake
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William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What
The Lamb (poem)
…The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. "The Lamb" is the counterpart poem to Blake's poem: "The Tyger" in Songs of Experience. Blake wrote Songs of…
Portrait of William Blake by Thomas Phillips, 1807
28 Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in an illustration of 1912. Blake was born here and lived here until he was 25. The house was demolished in 1965.
The archetype of the Creator is a familiar image in Blake's work. Here, the demiurgic figure Urizen prays before the world he has forged. The Song of Los is the third in a series of illuminated books painted by Blake and his wife, collectively known as the Continental Prophecies.
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing (1786)