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 was too long and too literary by the producers of the play led to the change to the shorter excerpt from the same poem: "Burning Bright". Friend Ed has been pointed out as one in a line of characters inspired by Steinbeck's best friend Ed Ricketts. At the time Steinbeck wrote "Burning Bright", Ricketts had recently been killed in a car accident, and as well as reflecting his friend's character in that of Friend Ed, it is thought that the settings of the circus and the sea may have had significance for Steinbeck: he had apparently been at the circus