The Tyger of the tunes. The Tyger "The Tyger" is a poem by the English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the "Songs of Experience" collection. Literary critic Alfred Kazin calls it "the most famous of his poems", and "The Cambridge Companion to William Blake" says it is "the most anthologized poem in English". It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works. The "Songs of Experience" was published in 1794 as a follow up to Blake's 1789 "Songs of Innocence." The two books were published together under the merged title "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, showing
HMS Tyger barge was sunk and several men wounded, but none of the "Tyger"'s crew were killed. Preparations were made to leave Garden Key. The salvaged sloop was repaired, and one "periagua" was lengthened and rigged as a schooner. On 19 March the crew of the "Tyger" boarded the sloop, the schooner rigged "periagua", the yawl, the two other "periaguas" and the canoe, and set sail for Port Royal. The canoe capsized and sank after only two days, but its crew were rescued by one of the other boats. The little fleet rounded the western end of Cuba and reached the Cayman