Songs of Innocence and Experience

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Songs of Innocence and Experience is the name of two books of poetry by William Blake usually considered together.

Innocence was printed five years before Experience, but the books complement each other: the first consisting of poems telling of the innocence of the world, and the second tempering these poems with contrasting tales about experience.

Both books have been set to music by composer William Bolcom under the same title. In 2006, it won 3 Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance, Best Classical Contemporary Composition, and Best Classical Album under the Naxos label.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is also the title of an album by UK funk punk band Adequate Seven, and of an album by folk musician Greg Brown that sets several of Blake's poem to music.

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