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Question: Why is Blake called ‘the precursor of

Romanticism’? Blake is called the precursor of
Romanticism

Introduction
William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the 몭rst-generation romantic poets. He was an English poet,
painter, and printmaker. His best-known works Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of
Innocence and of Experience (1794). His writing style deals with greatly Romanticism.
Romantic features
To discuss Blake as ‘the precursor of Romanticism’, we need to know the features of
Romanticism. Love for nature, love for beauty, imagination, supernatural elements, etc are the
main features of Romanticism.

Blake as a Romantic poet

William Blake is a Romantic poet without any doubt. In the poems of Blake, we get sundry
features of romantic poetry like other genuine romantic poets. His poems are packed up by
discussing the sea, birds, hills, trees, forest, and so on.

Notes
Blake as the precursor of Romanticism
We know that the Romantic Period has been started in 1798 with the hands of William
Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge. Romantics have written poems in simple language, with
reference to nature, beauty, high imagination, sensuousness, etc. But William Blake has written
his poems before 1798 with the trends of the Romantic period (1798-1832). We can cite Blake’s
poems of Songs of Innocence and Of Experience to clear the idea. It seems that Romantics
have gotten ready-made trends to compose their poems from Blake. If he would compose his
poems from 1798 to 1832, he is called a genuine romantic poet. As he was born and composed
poems early, he is called the precursor of Romanticism.

Conclusion
From the above discussion, it is cleared that we can address Blake as the precursor of
Romanticism for his writing qualities without any hesitation.
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