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Songs of Innocence and of Experience

In Our Time

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The Innocence of the Schoolboy

Do you know enough about his life at that time to be able to track what happened to him? That's a really hard question. I don't think we do know enough. He does write a poem called the French Revolution that we have only in proofs and with Joseph Johnson's name on it as publishers. We know he did respond positively in the poems in the notebook which didn't make it into experience. There are even drafts of poems that didn't make experience which have more contemporary reference.

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