Samarkand state institute of foreign language faculty of english language II

Conclusion
We can conclude from this course work that William Blake is considered a precursor of Romanticism is English Literature. Romantic era laid considerable stress on the elements of imagination, nature worship, humanitarianism, liberty, mysticism and symbolism. It differed from the outlook expounded by the preceding age of Neo-classicism which promoted the notion of reason, balance and logic with regard to prose and poetry. The Romantic creed of poetry rests on recording the simple emotions of humanity in a simple diction. Recollections of childhood is also a common subject of Romanticism.
The Romantic Era in England began with the smashing of the fetters of traditionalism. Blake believed that "poetry fettered fet ters the human race." in the period preceding Blake, poetry suffered from an excessive adherence to rules and monotony of heroic Couplets. All literature was confined to some established classical norms. Blake says: "We do not want either Greek or Roman models if we are but just and true to our own imaginations." He also brought about a drastic revolution in the sector of diction.
Physical and Spiritual: Blake is not merely a revolutionary thinker on man's physical or corporeal freedom; he is also one who broods over the spiritual freedom or spiritual salvation of mankind. The former point, showing Blake as a humanitarian, can be well understood from poems such as The Chinmney-Sweeper, Holy Thursday and A Little Girl Lost. In all these cases Blake's fury makes him lash out at the hypocrisy of marand the society that enslaves children to utter lifelessness. In 'Holy Thursday' Blake's sympathetic and compassionate heart shares the agony of the children and his pent up feelings are let out through an ironical comment
Blake was greatly affected by the sight of the miseries of the chimney-sweepers and the children of the Sunday school. Their physical bondage enrages him and he comes up with the slogan of human liberty.
But the ultimate liberty is that of the human soul and Blake, the mystic, stands for this view point in poems such as 'The Divine Image' and 'To Tirzah'. The most characteristic feature of Blake's poems is that they are based on his 'visions. These visions are peopled with angels, gods and goddesses. Ultimately this implies that the poetic inspiration or poetry itself is divine and sacred. Human instincts and impulses play a significant role in man's spiritual progress and Blake always speaks against laying down codes of prohibition against them. The best examples to quote in support of Blake's mysticism lie in his The Garden of Love' and 'The Divine Image' where the poet projects his philosophy of godliness and divinity. In 'Night' the poet disclosed the state of soul after its communion with God. In the 'golden tents' of God the soul of even the ferocious lion acquires a new life of harmless simplicity and innocence. The core and kernel of his mysticism lies in the terms Innoccnce and 'Experience' themselves. These are the two supplementary as well as contrasting aspects of the human heart which constitute the whole of man's life and work for the salvation of his soul.