Features of Romanticism in Blake’s Songs of Innocence And Songs of Experience

William Blake, the son of a London hosiery tradesman, was a strange, imaginative child. His soul was at home with books, flowers, and fairies than with the crowd of the city streets.  Romanticism seeds had been sewn into Blake’s nature much earlier than Romanticism was officially proclaimed by the publication of the Lyrical Ballads in 1798 … Read more