London of the chimney sweepers: literature and historical experience on the London and The Chimney Sweeper poems from William Blake (1789-1794). Master’s Thesis (Social History). Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Londrina, 2011

Abstract

This work intends to analyze some of the social transformations happened in England over the decades in the eighteenth century as from the London poem and also homonym poems The Chimney Sweeper shown on the work Songs of Innocence and of Experience from the poet William Blake who took part in the English romantic movement. His work was mark marked as a hole by the mystic thought ended in the creation of a cosmogony capable to explain according to the actor the human condition. To the Blake’s thought characters and fictions situations many times they are referred and names and real situations are mixed up being indicates that a human condition that is shown would be an English society during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at which the industrialization process took part the increasing displacement of the reason as center of thought and would hear the echo of the French revolution. Songs of Innocence and of Experience contains the grounds of the developed throughout the forwards works from William Blake concerning the social transformation experienced by him in a universe where politics, religion, and arts intertwine in a construction of the peculiar interpretation of the formation of the modern industrial.