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Songs Of Innocence and Experience

Songs Of Innocence and Experience

Blake, William

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Series: Poetry and Prose

General Poetry

ISBN10: 150329823X
ISBN13: 9781503298231
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 20 2014
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Innocence and Experience are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of Paradise and the Fall. Blake's categories are modes of perception that tend to coordinate with a chronology that would become standard in Romanticism: childhood is a state of protected innocence rather than original sin, but not immune to the fallen world and its institutions. This world sometimes impinges on childhood itself, and in any event becomes known through experience, a state of being marked by the loss of childhood vitality, by fear and inhibition, by social and political corruption, and by the manifold oppression of Church, State, and the ruling classes.

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