Religious and Political Cruelty: Creating Weeping Children and Little Vagabonds in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

By Gillian Williams Blake was an instrumental poet during the nineteenth century, and he could arguably be considered one of the most powerful social critics because of his focus on the rampant corruption and hypocrisy that existed in the English society. In the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, he presents a dual-focus approach to man’s propensity... Continue Reading →

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