...technology of writing and its relation to the pre-textual technologies thematized earlier in the poem: Piper sit thee down and write In a book that all may read So he vanished from my sight. And I pluck'da hollow reed. And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water...

...verbal art, with all its refrains, repetitions and parallelisms: And I made a rural pen. And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. ('Introduction' to Songs of Innocence) but also by the designs which are 'benignly leafy and springlike.'...

...happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer:' So 1 sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. 'Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all...vanish'd from my sight, And I pluck'da hollow reed, And 1 made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to...

...der Songs fußt produktionsästhetisch allerdings auf der Poetik eines schreibenden Erwachsenen:804 And I made a rural pen. And I stain'd the water clear....wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. (v. l6-20) Damit also ein Kind die songs hören kann, muß als implizite Pragmatik der Gedichte die...

...poem's final stanza that become marks of our own interpretive uncertainties in reading the poems.'7 And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear,...wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. The suggestion that writing supposes a cultural contamination of unmediated experience, even if writing...

...happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water...

...(18:12-13). The resemblance of her speech to the final lines of "Introduction" in Songs of Innocence ("And I wrote my happy songs / Every child may joy to hear") suggests that the infant is the innocent reader, one who is uncorrupted by metaphor and responsive...

...the "Introduction" to the Songs of Innocence, the song of the piper is followed by an inscription: Piper sit thee down and write In a book that all may...wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. (E, 7) Writing here is an instrument of dissemination and democratization, producing books "that all...

...thy happy pipe Sing thy songs of happy chear, So I sung the same again While he wept with joy to hear Piper sit thee down and write In a book that all may read — 3 William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience Copy C, 1794 VIEW 1 VIEW 4v: Plate 1 VIEW...

...unifies sound and word which can attain a permanence in writing, as the child instructs the piper "to sit thee down and write/ In a book that all may read." The movement here is from the one child/listener to the many, so that "Every child may joy to hear."...