Blake : songs of innocence and experience

David W. Lindsay. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 85-88. Front Matter....Pages 1-10 Introduction....Pages 11-15 Defining the text....Pages 17-20 Antecedents of Innocence....Pages 21-25 Reading the designs....Pages 25-29 Voices of Innocence....Pages 29-34 ‘The Chimney Sweeper’....Pages 34-38 Transition and system....Pages 38-42 Counterparts....Pages 43-47 Voices of Experience....Pages 47-51 A Trilogy....Pages 52-56 Novitiate: ‘Holy Thursday’....Pages 57-61 Eden: ‘The Ecchoing Green’....Pages 61-65 Generation: ‘The Little Girl Lost’ and ‘The Little Girl Found’....Pages 66-71 Prophecy: ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Fly’....Pages 71-76 Scripture: ‘The Human Abstract’....Pages 76-80 Redemption: ‘To Tirzah’....Pages 80-84 Back Matter....Pages 85-91 This book offers an identification of the studies which have most contributed to our understanding of Blake's Songs, showing how the different meanings perceived by critics are not mutually exclusive but complementary. The author contends that Blake's vision is more comprehensive than those critics committed to narrowly Marxist or Christian interpretations of his work. approaches to specific literary texts, and to introduce the reader to further reading on the subject and to a fuller evaluation of a particular text by illustrating the way it has been approached in a number of contexts An identification of the studies which have most contributed to our understanding of Blake's "Songs", showing how the different meanings perceived by critics are not mutually exclusive but complementary, and that Blake's vision is actually more comprehensive than that of his critics.