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William Blake Online

Synopsis
William Blake Online was designed to accompany the exhibition held at Tate Britain from November 2000 - February 2001 but the website has been retained as a resource to introduce some of Blake’s artistic and poetical works, his life story and the London that he knew. The site follows the four exhibition sections, but includes a fifth section, Learning Tools, designed especially for teachers’ and students’ needs. One of the sections showcases three of the Songs of Innocence and five of the Songs of Experience in their original illustrated form, but with pop-up notes and audio-features added.

The Songs of Innocence were published by Blake in 1789, and he produced a combined version of Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1794. The Songs are now often studied for their literary merit alone, but they were originally produced as illuminated books, engraved, hand-printed, and coloured by Blake himself. The text of the poem and the accompanying illustration formed an integrated whole, each adding meaning to the other. Here you can examine three of the Songs of Innocence and five of the Songs of Experience in their original illustrated form. The featured poems are: Holy Thursday (I), Little Black Boy (I) Chimney Sweeper (I), Holy Thursday (E) Chimney Sweeper (E), The Tyger (E),The Garden of Love (E), London (E)
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Year of production
2001
Availability
Link IS NO LONGER ACTIVE
Notes
Real Player or MP3 are needed for the audio recordings
Subjects
English language and literature; FE
Keywords
Blake, William; illustrations; manuscripts; poetry

Online availability

URI
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/blakeinteractive/
Delivery
Streamed

Sponsor

Name

Tate Britain

Distributor

Name

Tate Britain: William Blake Online

Web
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/blakeinteractive/ External site opens in new window

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