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Songs of Innocence and of Experience

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Differences Between Words of Earth and Coal Ridge

It's an unusual childhood in foreign poets at the time. The English school in 10, four years, a study in drawing, then an apprentice at graver, seven years. He was obviously... I don't know what he's talking about, do you know? Well, one suspects the fact that he didn't speak in a posh voice. His family are dissenters. So they're lower middle class. They're not part of the established church. And all of Blake's writings are infused with the language of the Bible. Religious dissent very much bound up with radical politics at the time as well.

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