Uploaded March 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a virtual movie of William Blake reading his much loved Poem "The Tyger" The soundtrack used on this video is from a rare 78 rpm shellac record recited by Clifford Turner.
Clifford Turner delivers the Poem somewhat in the style of a preacher delivering a sermon.Very few people would ever have seen a Tiger in the flesh in Blake's Time and most people of the time in Britain would have considered such a creature depicted only by art works as a devilish creature of Myth. To me Turner is the nearest I have ever heard ,and I have most of the significant recordings of recitals of this poem in my collection to how I imagine Blake may have sounded reciting his poem.
J. Clifford Turner was a leading voice teacher who gained his experience at RADA.
"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,"[1] and The Cambridge Companion to William Blake says it is "the most anthologized poem in English."[2] It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works.
he Songs of Experience was published in 1794 as a follow up to Blake's 1789 Songs of Innocence.[4] The two books were published together under the merged title Songs of Innocence and Experience, showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: the author and printer, W. Blake[4] featuring 54 plates. The illustrations are arranged differently in some copies, while a number of poems were moved from Songs of Innocence to Songs of Experience. Blake continued to print the work throughout his life.[5] Of the copies of the original collection, only 28 published during his life are known to exist, with an additional 16 published posthumously.[6] Only 5 of the poems from Songs of Experience appeared individually before 1839.The Tyger,
All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2017
Here's a virtual movie of William Blake reading his much loved Poem "The Tyger" The soundtrack used on this video is from a rare 78 rpm shellac record recited by Clifford Turner.
Clifford Turner delivers the Poem somewhat in the style of a preacher delivering a sermon.Very few people would ever have seen a Tiger in the flesh in Blake's Time and most people of the time in Britain would have considered such a creature depicted only by art works as a devilish creature of Myth. To me Turner is the nearest I have ever heard ,and I have most of the significant recordings of recitals of this poem in my collection to how I imagine Blake may have sounded reciting his poem.
J. Clifford Turner was a leading voice teacher who gained his experience at RADA.
"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,"[1] and The Cambridge Companion to William Blake says it is "the most anthologized poem in English."[2] It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works.
he Songs of Experience was published in 1794 as a follow up to Blake's 1789 Songs of Innocence.[4] The two books were published together under the merged title Songs of Innocence and Experience, showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: the author and printer, W. Blake[4] featuring 54 plates. The illustrations are arranged differently in some copies, while a number of poems were moved from Songs of Innocence to Songs of Experience. Blake continued to print the work throughout his life.[5] Of the copies of the original collection, only 28 published during his life are known to exist, with an additional 16 published posthumously.[6] Only 5 of the poems from Songs of Experience appeared individually before 1839.The Tyger,
All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2017
