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AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE,
December 20, 2024 10:00pm

 

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AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE,
BY WILLIAM BLAKE, Artist-Engraver. This fam'd Poem, which may be found within the Show, is assum'd to have been written in Year 1803, but was not Publish'd until full Sixty Years pass'd, in the Companion Volume to Alexander Gilchrist's Biography of that Poet. These Exhortations contain a Series of apparent Paradoxes which speak of Innocence juxtapos'd with Evil and Mortal Corruption. The Work consisteth of 132 Lines and has been oft Reproduc'd with and without Breaks, thus dividing it into Stanzas. An Augury, a Sign or Omen inherent in the Poetick Voice, we offer as we do confront the New Year; such Precepts as the Singer shews by Example may be likened unto a Candle Flame, we assert, within the Surrounding Darkness. The Next Week shall bring One more Show this departing Year. Also: Giant Spiders of the Underground Realms, etc.



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