Jon Mee (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Mee, Jon. “William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience.” In A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, pp. 402-07. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2000.
[In the following excerpt, Mee discusses the relationship between Blake's work and the poetry of his contemporaries.]
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience certainly ranks among the most distinctive and individual collections of poetry in a century obsessed with originality and genius. It was...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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