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Merry, merry sparrow! |
Notes & Commentary
- ↑ From Songs of Innocence, 1789.
Compare this poem to its contrary, the “The Sick Rose” from Songs of Experience. See also the introductory note on “The Lamb” for more background into Blake’s poetic composition and philosophy.
Works Cited
- Battenhouse, Henry M. (1958). English Romantic Writers. New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.
- Gardner, Stanley (1969). Blake. Literary Critiques. New York: Arco.
- Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. (2018). The Norton Anthology of English Literature. The Major Authors. 2 (Tenth ed.). New York: W. W. Norton.
- Tomlinson, Alan (1987). Song of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake. MacMillan Master Guides. London: MacMillan Education.
Links
- Blake at the Internet Archive.