Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2), credited to William Blake, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) by William Blake. Read in English by Foon. "Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "Paradise" and "Fall". Blake categorizes our modes of perception that became standard in Romanticism: childhood is a state of innocence rather than original sin, but not immune to the fallen world (experience). The first part of this volume mainly shows happy, innocent perception in pastoral harmony, whereas the second part also deals with darker themes. (Summary by Foon)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)
• Author credits: William Blake
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 51:36

Track guide

1. 01 - Songs of Innocence: Introduction - The Shepherd - The Echoing Green - The Lamb - The Little Black Boy - The Blossom - The Chimney-Sweeper — 8:39
2. 02 - The Little Boy Lost - The Little Boy Found - Laughing Song - A Cradle Song - The Divine Image - Holy Thursday — 6:18
3. 03 - Night - Spring - Nurse's Song - Infant Joy - A Dream - On Another's Sorrow — 8:11
4. 04 - Songs of Experience: Introduction - Earth's Answer - The Clod and the Pebble - Holy Thursday - The Little Girl Lost - The Little Girl Found - The Chimney-Sweeper — 9:18
5. 05 - Nurse's Song - The Sick Rose - The Fly - The Angel - The Tiger - My Pretty Rose-Tree - Ah, Sunflower — 5:14
6. 06 - The Lily - The Garden of Love - The Little Vagabond - London - The Human Abstract - Infant Sorrow - A Poison Tree — 6:07
7. 07 - A Little Boy Lost - A Little Girl Lost - A Divine Image - A Cradle Song - The Schoolboy - To Tirzah - The Voice of the Ancient Bard — 7:48

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