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Critics and their quotes on Blake's poetry
George N. - The Chimney Sweeper (I) - “Tom’s dream…”
George Norton: “Tom’s dream functions like the workings of ideology”
Anon - The Garden of Love - “The poem equates…”
Anon: “The poem equates the fall not with sin, but with organised religion itself.”
Carol R. - “The effect of in…”
Carol Rumens: “The effect of innocence on experience is less one of mockery than moral complication”
Nicholas M. - The Lamb - “(the boy speaker’s)…”
Nicholas Marsh: “(The boy speaker’s) faith (…) is only good for the world within (…) the space of the poem”
Anon - The Tyger - “without that com…”
Anon: “Without that complexity (the more dangerous and intimidating side of the world) a work of art win’t be fully honest and authentic”
Simon M. - “In the ideal world…”
Simon Mold: “In the ideal world of the songs of innocence, it is indeed often the child who leads.”
Ross W. - “(aspects of) Christianity are…”
Ross Wilson: “(Aspects of) Christianity are reduced or deformed versions - that rely upon suffering.”
Nicholas M. - The Chimney Sweeper (E) - “The church and state…”
Nicholas Marsh: “The church and state enables them (the parents) to absolve their consciences”
Carol R. - The Divine Image - “The idea that…”
Carol Rumens: “The idea that prayers are directed to this human form, rather than God, are radical.”
Raymond W. - Earth’s Answer - “Criticised his ma…”
Raymond Williams: “Criticised his materialistic society for blunting imagination.”
Linda F. - London - “People make…”
Linda Freeman: “People make their own graves, Blake insists, when they refuse to open their minds.”
John H. - “Not allowing con…_
John Higgs: “(Not allowing contraries to exist) would result in a static, unchanging world devoid of joy or surprise.”
Brendan C. - Intro to Innocence - “Perhaps the convers…”
Brendan Cooper: “Perhaps the conversion of artistic feeling into words itself is a loss of innocence.”
Linda F. - The Chimney Sweeper (I) - “(The narrator is) una…”
Linda Freedman: “(The narrator is) unable to comprehend the world he finds himself in, (making) innocence a much more frightening state than experience.”
George N. - The Chimney Sweeper (I) - “religion is active…”
George Norton: “Religion is active on children’s oppression because it makes them promises about the after life rather than dealing with injustices on earth.”
Anon - The Garden of Love - “The poem makes…”
Anon: “The poem makes the psychological passage from childhood innocence to adult experience.”
John G. - The Tyger - “Nothing in the poem…”
John Grant: “Nothing in the poem is ‘obviously affirmative”
Linda F. - The Chimney Sweeper poems - “issues of both social…”
Linda Freedman: “Issues of both social criticism and organised religion both as ‘manifestations of the same fundamental problem of blinkered perception.”
