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Songs of Innocence and of Experience

In Our Time

CHAPTER

Blake's Innocence and Experience

Early in the 1780s he was trying to establish a place for himself in the engraving world. He's clearly interested in education and a kind of new wave of thinking about education that goes back at least to Rousseau, but is also people like Anna LaTisha Baba. We will grow into who we were by our interaction with others, by being open if you like to the other. That's a theme that recurs through the songs of innocence and experience. Although he does see innocence as a developing state that can learn identity through play, through interacting with others.

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