The following table organizes details of the heads of the tyger featured at the bottom of Blake’s poem “The Tyger” in the different copies available at The William Blake Archive. There are thirteen images in all available at The William Blake Archive, which is a around half of all known copies of the Songs of InnocenceContinue reading “The Tyger Heads of William Blake”
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William Blake and Bad Taxidermy
I’ve always wondered a bit (and I’m not alone) at the facial expression of the Tyger in Blake’s “The Tyger” — it tends to look a bit silly and sheepish when compared to the destructive and dangerous animal described in the poem. The link below to a series of images of bad taxidermy on io9,Continue reading “William Blake and Bad Taxidermy”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 