Category: Mendelssohn
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Piping Down the Valleys Wild: Some Literary and Historical Sources
The title page of Songs of Innocence (1793) by William Blake (1757-1827). You can view the entire 1793 edition and read commentary at the Tate Museum’s website. An 1802 poem along similar lines by William Wordsworth (1770-1850): My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life…