1. Poems on Childhood by William Blake
Select any one text from the first semester set texts and write an essay about it that examines how that text relates to any one of the issues that the class is exploring. These issues might include questions of period, genre, national tradition, the nature of childhood, education, history, gender, literary form, text and illustration, and so on (see Class Description). William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789, 1794) extensively explores the concept of childhood. Often the concept explored is the Romantic vision of childhood, yet this is not always the case. It is ther...
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