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The Work of William Blake with Valentin Gerlier

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The Importance of Innocence

Blake's songs of innocence and experience are supposed to be easy, simple, direct things that children could sing. But I think Blake's inviting us to hold contouries together without trying to collapse them into simplistic notions of a fallen adult world which is forever has been wrenched away from the simple joys of childhood. So in a sense, there is an invitation to travel a kind of middle road in which those seeming contouries can be helped to get. The work of the imagination takes place within the, what is the imagination?

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