ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: French Revolution, God Speaks, Chimney Sweep
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Often neglected in early studies of the romantic era. Now seen as crucial to the romantic movement. Saw virtues of child like innocence in his works. Read by charles lamb, wordsworth, and coleridge. Influential to mater cultural movements: adous huxley, alex ginsburg, the doors. Grew up in a home which the state established anglican church rejected but still remained very religious. Had religious visions from an early age. Rather than opposition, think of the poems in innocence and experience as being in dialogue w one another. The tension between the two contrary states of the human soul is what gives nuance and richness to the poems. The echoing green : nature-the sun goes up, sun goes down (cycle of the day) Figuratively translates to the cycle of life. Intro of experience pg 67: peot is a prophet in the intro, poet talks about a fallen world and wants to repairs.
