Auguries of Innocence

by William Blake · 1968

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This illustrated edition presents William Blake's well-known poem "Auguries of Innocence" in a form shaped by the look of his own handmade work. Each page holds one section of the verse, paired with a picture cut into a linoleum block, printed, and finished by hand with watercolor. The poem moves between gentle reflections on nature and the small lives within it, and darker warnings about cruelty and the troubles of the world. Its central idea is renewal: the notion that imagination and an unspoiled sense of innocence can open a path back to what is good. The pictures and verse work together, so that the reader moves slowly through each page and sees the poem as something made by hand.

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