Infant Sorrow
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Poet William Blake 1757–1827
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Subjects Family & Ancestors, Living, Relationships, Infancy
Poetic Terms Simile, Rhymed Stanza, Couplet
Biography
In his Life of William Blake (1863) Alexander Gilchrist warned his readers that Blake "neither wrote nor drew for the many, hardly for work'y-day men at all, rather for children and angels; himself 'a divine child,' whose playthings were sun, moon, and stars, the heavens and the earth." Yet Blake himself believed that his writings were of national importance and that they could be understood by a majority of men. Far from . . .
Poems by William Blake
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SUBJECT Family & Ancestors, Living, Relationships, Infancy
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Poetic Terms Simile, Rhymed Stanza, Couplet
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