The Poems of William Blake William Blake

William Blake’s poems ‘The Tyger’ and ‘Holy Thursday’ - each from his more dysphemistic book ‘Songs of Experience’ - explore and lament the loss of spirituality in the unethical era of the Industrial Revolution. He approaches the topics of man's...

The industrial revolution was greatly opposed by the poets of the Romantic movement, due to its corruption of morality and nature, including the exploitation of children. Rousseau stated that ‘everything degenerates in the hands of man’, fueling...

Within ‘Songs of Experience: London’ by William Blake and ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ by William Wordsworth, both poets portray their appreciation of natural locations through their embrace of the rural aspect of life and their rejection of...

Poets of the Romantic movement sought to counteract the prevailing political and social viewpoints of the 18th-19th century. Romanticism was a philosophical movement and reaction against the logical enlightenment known as an age of reason which...