Vision and Disenchantment: Blake's 'Songs' and Wordsworth's 'Lyrical Ballads'

Acknowledgements Note on the texts Introduction 1. Poetic 'simplicity': Blake's Songs and eighteenth-century children's verse 2. Poetic 'simplicity': Lyrical Ballads and magazine verse 3. The real language of men 4. Vision and morality: Songs of Innocence 5. The morality of experience: Songs of Experience 6. Morality through experience: Lyrical Ballads 1798 7. Desire and disillusion: the Goslar Lyrics 8. Names and signs: the poems of Grasmere Conclusion Notes Index.