Harriet Kramer Linkin (essay date summer 1986)
SOURCE: Linkin, Harriet Kramer. “The Language of Speakers in Songs of Innocence and of Experience.” Romanticism Past and Present 10, no. 2 (summer 1986): 5-24.
[In the following essay, Linkin analyzes the speech patterns of the narrators of the individual poems in Songs.]
Like the eighteenth-century grammarians who view discourse as a template of the human mind, Blake correlates syntactic structures with patterns of thinking.1 In Songs of Innocence and of Experience,...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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