ENG 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Sick Rose, Industrial Revolution, Tetrameter

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 3318
• Professor: Elaine Bailey

Document Summary

Songs of innocence and experience william blake. Dissident (divine grace, salvation through grace of god) religious (not church of england or roman catholic) limited formal schooling. No false humility about the significance of his work. Letter to trussler: wants to be difficult. The ancients are cryptic enough that you have to actually think about the works. Title: songs of innocnce: he"s not in this state anymore. Not an innocent voice: songs about the innocent state, look into world of innocence with different perspective, author"s voice disconnected with voice represented. Mass literacy: sacred oral traditions would be lost. Voice of new and emerging mass readership. Child vanished angel did its duty, message delivered: leaving it up to the adult to do, mass marketplace to leave, now we"re the child. It"s impossible to be an adult and have that 100% innocence. Most children would learn to read by going to sunday school.