1. Poems on Childhood by William Blake
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789, 1794) extensively explores the concept of childhood. ... Romanticism promoted country life, connecting the countryside with physical and moral purity, as well as a means of escapism. ... Blake uses this technique when he describes the green woods as "laughing with the voice of joy" and says that "the air does laugh with our merry wit/And the green hill laughs with the noise of it" (Blake, 1967, plate 15). ... It is highly plausible that by writing about such a cause, Blake is critiquing this convention of soci...
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