Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience and Wordsworth's
contributions to Lyrical Ballads were both published in the last
decade of the eighteenth century. The similarities between the two
collections have often been noticed. However, as Dr Glen argues, to
assimilate both collections to a common 'Romanticism' is to obscure
that which is most distinctive in each. Each was shaped by and
responsive to very different social and cultural pressures in the
England of its time and offers a very different vision of human
possibility. Moreover each poet uses the language which is the
intimate register and vehicle of his society's experience in a very
different way. This is a challenging and persuasive interpretation
of poems too often seen as part of a coherent and accepted literary
tradition: poems which present a continuing challenge to all who
would explore possibilities for creative social change. It will be
of great interest to all serious readers of Romantic poetry.
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