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"The Chimney Sweeper" is the title of a poem by William Blake, published in two parts in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794. The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Songs of Experience is a collection of 26 poems forming the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The poems were published in 1794 (see 1794 in poetry). Some of the poems, such as "The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found", were moved by Blake to Songs of Innocence and were frequently moved between the two books. [note 1]
The Angel (Songs of Experience) B. The Blossom; C. The Chimney Sweeper; The Clod and the Pebble; A Cradle Song; D. A Divine Image; A Dream (Blake poem) E. Earth's Answer;
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826, object 30 (Bentley 30, Erdman 30, Keynes 30) "Introduction" (The Fitzwilliam Museum) Introduction to the Songs of Experience is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was etched and published as part of his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1794. [1]
Sketch.— For Songs of Experience — 'The Sick Rose.' (central emblem, pencil). Man's head in profile (pen and ink). p. 22. Sketch (pencil). A composition with a few figures (heavily obscured with the text, central emblem). p. 23. Sketch (pencil). A figure inside of the cage hanged on the bow of a tree and anEagle (central emblem).
In some of the poems in this work, such as "The Chimney Sweeper" and "The Little Black Boy", Blake uses irony and rhetoric to portray the corruption of innocence in youth. Songs of Innocence were later combined with Blake's Songs of Experience, becoming Songs of Innocence and Experience and bringing the total number of poems in the work to ...
One afternoon Britten suggested two Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake, entitled "The Chimney Sweeper", and as Crozier relates, "by that evening we had planned the structure, action and characters of a short opera in three scenes." [1]
Songs and Proverbs of William Blake is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (1913–76) in 1965 for baritone voice and piano and published as his Op. 74. The published score states that the words were "selected by Peter Pears " from Proverbs of Hell , Auguries of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake (1757–1827).