William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience - Haggarty, Sarah (University of Cambridge, UK) a Mee, Jon A

This indispensable Guide maps out the daunting critical terrain surrounding Blake's most widely-studied text. It introduces students to the earliest reactions to 'Songs' during Blake's lifetime, explores his gathering reputation in the nineteenth century, and examines critical approaches to the work in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.