1. Religion in the Poetry of William Blake
Hagstrum in his essay "On Innocence and Experience" writes, "The Urizen of Experience is not primarily the fallen Lucifer, the mythic figure of Blake's prophecy, but a social creature, a supporter of repressive institutions". ... For instance in the poem "The Chimney Sweeper" it is an angel who "open'd the coffins & set them all free." ... An angel is releasing the soot-covered boys from their "coffins of black," and they are dancing away as they are released. ...
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