William Blake (1757-1827) William Blake wrote during the Romantic period which was a span between 1785 - 1830. Other great writers during this time were Mary Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and others. Some said that the Romantic period was the fairy tale way of writing through s...

In William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, the gentle lamb and the dire tiger define childhood by setting a contrast between the innocence of youth and the experience of age. The Lamb is written with childish repetitio...

William Blake was one of England's great poets. His diversity and insight in human nature is truly masterful, being able to write in the voice of a young child with all the innocence this brings and then in the voice of an adult. Blake did write of dreams and sunny days, angels, little ones leaping,...