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Songs of Innocence and of Experience

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Preempting of Modern Psychology

Blake's view of innocence and the growing into sexuality is difficult enough, we might say, without institutions then making people feel guilt about it. And that in a way is why he has been taken up by free thinkers and radical thinkers over the years. We need to remember how little known his poetry was, how little influence he had in his own time. Few people in the literary world read him, words worth said.

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