![]() ![]() This includes questions such as the City and the Country the Primacy of Nature the “Promethean” quality of Enlightenment achievements a profound distrust of the Industrial Revolution the centrality of the child, and so on.īut there are other things that we should remark on, as these, too, are significant. ![]() To begin with, a great many of the general concerns of Romanticism (and especially the first-generation Romantics) are present in this work. For, although it has become conventional to see The Lyrical Ballads (1798/1800) by Wordsworth and Coleridge as, in effect, the starting point of English Romanticism, Blake at the very least should be seen as an essential foundation to that starting point. William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an extraordinary work of enormous literary value. (Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle) “Single nature’s double name/Neither two nor one was called” ![]()
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