This document discusses images of black boys in William Blake's poetry collections Songs of Innocence and of Experience. It references specific plates and copies that contain images related to the poems "The Little Black Boy" and "The Chimney Sweeper" which depict black boys. The document analyzes how the images in different copies of Blake's works portray the black boys described in the poems.

1. Images of Little Black Boys in William Blake’s
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Dr. Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Teaching Tricky Texts Panel
EC-ASECS 2006
Source of images: The William Blake Archive:
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

2. SI, “The Little Black Boy” pl. 1,
copy C

3. SI, “The Little Black Boy” pl. 2,
copy C (version 1)

4. SI, The Little Black Boy, pl.
2, copy R (version 2)

5. “The Little Black Boy” pl. 2, copies L and Y

6. “The Little Black Boy” pl. 2, copies Z and AA

7. “The Little Black Boy” pl. 1, copies C, L, Y, and Z

8. SI and SE, “The Chimney Sweeper” copy C

9. SE: “The Chimney Sweeper” copies L, V, Y, and Z

10. SE: “The Chimney Sweeper” copies L, V, Y, and Z