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Pre-romanticism (Day Romanticism) William Blake Robert Burns William Blake was a poet and an artist. From early childhood, he spoke of having visions—at four he saw “God put his head to the window”; around age nine, while walking through the countryside, he saw a tree filled with angels. Although his parents tried to discourage him from “lying”, they did observe that he was different from his peers and did not force him to attend conventional school. So he learned write and read at home. He began writing poetry when he was 12. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to an engraver. Later he earned his living as an engraver of illustrations for various publishers. Maybe due to his early childhood visions, Blake’s poetry was quite symbolic, biblical and sometimes called a mystic . And Blake’s revolutionary passion (French Revolution) came near to that of Shelly. Blake’s main works Songs of Innocence In the “Songs of Innocence”, Blake declares, he is writing “happy songs/ Every child may joy to hear”. Using a language which even little babies can learn by heart, Blake succeeds in depicting the happy condition of a child before it knows anything about the pains of existence. The poet expresses his delight in the sun, the hills, the streams, the insects and the flowers, in the innocence of the child and of the lamb. Here everything seems to be in pious harmony. Auguries of Innocence The Chimney sweeper The Lamb Songs of Experience A much mature work, entirely different themes are to be found, for in this collection of poems the poet drew pictures of neediness and distress and showed the sufferings of the miserable. The will to freedom must endure, for a time, the limitations of worldly experience, and salvation is still to come through passionate revolt, through revolution. The poet was conscious of “some blind hand” crushing the life of man, as man crushes the fly. The Chimney Sweeper (A comparative Study) The Tyger (A comparative study with The Lamb) The Marria