The Tyger
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The Tyger is a poem by William Blake, published in 1794 in Songs of Experience, as Blake was rising to prominence as a poet. The poem is one of the most anthologised in the English literary canon; it
Copy A of Blake's original printing of The Tyger, 1794. Copy A is held by the British Museum.
"Tyger, Tyger", illustrated by Freddie Baer (1994)
The Lamb (poem)
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"The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789.
The Tyger
…prevalent in late-18th-century and early-19th-century England, questioning the intention and motivation behind God's creation of such disparate beings as the "Lamb" and the eponymous "Tyger." Songs of Experience was published in 1794 as a follow-up to Blake's 1789 Songs of Innocence. The two books were published…
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"