A Visit to William Blake's Inn

A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers is a children's picture book written by Nancy Willard and illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, published by Harcourt Brace in 1981.

The sixteen poems that follow, including an epilogue, describe the events of a day and a half of a child's visit to William Blake's Inn.

Inhabited by such creatures as the Rabbit, the Rat, the Wise Cow, the King of Cats, the Tiger, the Man in the Marmalade Hat, and of course William Blake himself, it is a place of wonder and magic.

"[4] In a retrospective essay about the Newbery Medal-winning books from 1976 to 1985, literary critic Zena Sutherland wrote, "The poems, sometimes playful or even humorous, are just as often thoughtful, and they have fresh, felicitous phrasing to bring vision as a complementary component to writing that shows good control of rhyme, rhythm, and form.

"[6] The mistake was discovered by Thomas Pitchford, a secondary school librarian in Hertfordshire, who "thought the style bore little relation to the poet's other work" and traced the poem to A Visit to William Blake's Inn.