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Songs and Proverbs of William Blake is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (1913–76) in 1965 for baritone voice and piano and published as his Op. 74. The published score states that the words were "selected by Peter Pears" from Proverbs of Hell, Auguries of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake (1757–1827).
Songs of Experience is a collection of 26 poems forming the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The poems were published in 1794 (see 1794 in poetry). Some of the poems, such as "The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found", were moved by Blake to Songs of Innocence and were frequently moved between the two books. [note 1]
Coil performed a song called "Love's Secret Domain" that quotes Blake's "The Sick Rose", [41] they also allude to Blake in "The Dreamer is Still Asleep" on Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1. Thee Majesty , a later project of Genesis P-Orridge , performed a song called "Thee Little Black Boy" loosely based on Blake's poem " The Little Black Boy ".
As befits a song, there have been many musical settings of "Ah! Sun-flower". [60] The following are the most notable. Ralph Vaughan Williams included "Ah! Sun-flower" in his 1958 song cycle Ten Blake Songs. Benjamin Britten's song cycle Songs and Proverbs of William Blake (1965) includes a setting of "Ah! Sun-flower".
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 February 2025. English poet and artist (1757–1827) For other people named William Blake, see William Blake (disambiguation). William Blake Portrait by Thomas Phillips (1807) Born (1757-11-28) 28 November 1757 Soho, London, England Died 12 August 1827 (1827-08-12) (aged 69) Charing Cross, London ...
"To Tirzah", in the Cambridge copy of the Songs of Experience "To Tirzah" is a poem by William Blake that was published in his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience. It is often described as the most difficult of the poems because it refers to an oblique character called "Tirzah", whose identity is not directly stated.
Copy AA of "Holy Thursday", printed in 1826. This copy is currently held by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. [1]"Holy Thursday" is a poem by William Blake, from his 1789 book of poems Songs of Innocence.
Ten Blake Songs is a song cycle for tenor or soprano voice and oboe composed over the Christmas period of 1957 by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), for the 1958 film The Vision of William Blake by Guy Brenton for Morse Films. [1]