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CR Episode 25: Selections from Songs of Innocence and Experience

CR Episode 25: Selections from Songs of Innocence and Experience

Critical Readings · Critical Readings

December 2, 201943m 17s

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Show Notes

The panel examines four poems by William Blake from Songs of Innocence (Night, The Chimney Sweeper) and Songs of Experience (The Chimney Sweeper, A Poison Tree), and discusses Blake's mysticism, child-like wonder, and poetic depictions of Christianity.