Harold Bloom (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Bloom, Harold. Introduction to William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, edited by Harold Bloom, pp. 1-28. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.
[In the following introduction, Bloom discusses Blake's exploration of the ambivalent nature of innocence.]
Of the traditional “kinds” of poetry, Blake had attempted pastoral and satire at the very start, in the Poetical Sketches, though the satire there is subtle and tentative. In Tiriel, satire and tragedy are first brought together in a...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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