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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 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).
Also it is interesting to compare the most famous Blake's poem "The Tyger" with its two earlier Notebook versions (see: "The Tyger", 1st draft and 2nd draft). The genre of most of the poems of this section can be defined as Songs and Ballads. Some of them reflect the political and social climate of that time:
The Lamb (poem) Laughing Song; The Lilly (poem) The Little Black Boy; The Little Boy Found; A Little Boy Lost; The Little Boy Lost; The Little Girl Found; A Little Girl Lost; The Little Girl Lost; The Little Vagabond; London (William Blake poem)
Had a job as a chimney sweeper, He had the dope habit and he had it bad, Listen while I tell you about a dream he had, He went down to the dope shop one Saturday night, He knew the lights would all be burning bright, Well I guess he smoked a dozen pills or more, When he woke up he was on a foreign shore, The Queen of Sheba was the first he met,
The William Blake Archive is a digital humanities project started in 1994, a first version of the website was launched in 1996. [1] The project is sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Rochester . [ 2 ]
The poem depicts a ceremony held on Ascension Day, which in England was then called Holy Thursday, [2] [3] [4] a name now generally applied to what is also called Maundy Thursday: [5] Six thousand orphans of London's charity schools, scrubbed clean and dressed in the coats of distinctive colours, are marched two by two to St Paul's Cathedral ...
Title page of Poetical Sketches. Poetical Sketches is the first collection of poetry and prose by William Blake, written between 1769 and 1777.Forty copies were printed in 1783 with the help of Blake's friends, the artist John Flaxman and the Reverend Anthony Stephen Mathew, at the request of his wife Harriet Mathew.