![]() ![]() For instance, in those dark days chimneys had to be cleaned, and since smallĬhildren were better able to squeeze into narrow chimneys than adults, unscrupulousīusinessmen gave children as young as four the dirty, dangerous, sometimes-deadly task of inserting themselves into chimneys and slowly working their way upwards toĬlean them. Many children of Blake's time were treated like indentured servants, or The loveliest lullabies in the English language: No great poet ever wrote more compassionately (or moreįrequently) about children than William Blake. The poem and complete dedication appearīlake's Importance as a Children's Advocate and Teacher Carla Maria Gnappi, who recited some of my poetry to her class whileĭiscussing the works of William Blake. Students of Liceo Europeo Maria Luigia High School in Parma, Italy, and their ![]() I am dedicating this page and my poem "Orpheus" to the English Literature Perhaps only Charles Dickens rivals Blake as an illustrator of the plight of ![]() Hours providing virtual slave labor to unscrupulous businessmen. Respond to the the plight of children forced to work long, grueling, hazardous Through his poetry and visual art, called for his fellow Englishmen to see and But Blake certainly hadĪ wonderfully tender heart for children. William Blake did not have children of his own, at least as far as we know.Īlthough he was married, he and his wife were childless. ![]()
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