Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of illustrated poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases: a few first copies were printed and illuminated by Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled "Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul". Blake was also a painter before the creation of "Songs of Innocence and Experience" and had painted such subjects as Oberon, Titania, and Puck dancing with fairies.