ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Infant Joy, The Chimney Sweeper, Infant Sorrow
23 Jan 2017
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William blake - songs of innocence and of experience. Utterly unremarkable in terms of his background and way of life, but one of the most intellectually radical artists ever to have lived. Every period after austen is reactive: writing reacts at something excessive or absurd from the previous period (i. e. austen reacting to a trend in contemporary literature) His father was a london"s tradesmen, unremarkable education, lived in comparative poverty and obscurity. Had it not been for people in the early twentieth century discovering his work, he wouldn"t have been discovered. No one appreciated him in his time. Artist is the only appropriate label, because poetry was one of the forms he practiced. Misleading to refer to blake as a poet: poetry constitutes only a small part of his output. Also a visual artist and a printer: made his own books and illustrations.
