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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.
After death of Robert in February 1787, Blake inherited the volume beginning it with the series of sketches for many emblematic designs on a theme of life of a man from his birth to death. Then, reversing the book he wrote on its last pages a series of poems of c. 1793. He continued the book in 1800s returning to the first pages.
The Chimney Sweep may refer to: The Chimney Sweep, directed by Georges Méliès "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep", a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen; Springman and the SS, also known as "The Chimney Sweep", a 1946 Czechoslovakian film directed by Jiří Brdečka and Jiří Trnka
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The poem is not known in any draft or manuscript version. Initially it was a part of the Songs of Innocence and printed as verso to The Little Black Boy; however, in the latest issues it is commonly placed last, forming a connecting link with the Introduction to the Songs of Experience. [3]
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