The Tyger States of the Human Soul: the author and printer, W. Blake" featuring 54 plates. The illustrations are arranged differently in some copies, while a number of poems were moved from "Songs of Innocence" to "Songs of Experience." Blake continued to print the work throughout his life. Of the copies of the original collection, only 28 published during his life are known to exist, with an additional 16 published posthumously. Only five of the poems from "Songs of Experience" appeared individually before 1839. The first and last stanzas are identical except the word "could" becomes "dare" in the second iteration. Kazin
Burning Bright Burning Bright Burning Bright is a 1950 novella by John Steinbeck written as an experiment with producing a play in novel format. Rather than providing only the dialogue and brief stage directions as would be expected in a play, Steinbeck fleshes out the scenes with details of both the characters and the environment. The intention was to allow the play to be read by the non-theatrical reader while still allowing the dialogue to be lifted and performed with little adaptation by acting companies. While Steinbeck could see that providing little information in the way of physical description or stage direction