Tyger! Tyger! burning bright ~ key poems in the Mentalist

“The Tyger“ is a poem by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794 (see 1794 in poetry). It is one of Blake's best-known and most analyzed poems. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (2003) calls it “the most anthologized poem in English.“[1] Most modern anthologies have kept Blake's choice of the archaic spelling “tyger“. It was a common spelling of the word at the time but was already “slightly archaic“[2] when he wrote the poem; he s