Perspectives

This section will focus on putting “The Echoing Green” by William Blake in perspective by comparing it to other texts by the same author and by connecting it to the literary period and similar works.

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Literary period
Works with the same theme
Works or by the same author

Literary period

William Blake is a Romantic Age author. He belongs to the first generation of Romantic poets in England together with Samuel T. Coleridge and William Wordsworth. These first wave Romantics focused on the sublime of nature and natural landscapes, on the harmonious relationship between man and nature in idyllic, pastoral landscapes but also on social issues related to injustice or religion. Romantic poets have preferences for fixed form poems which follow the classical structures of lyrical texts (they have rhyme and metric rhythm).

Works with the same theme

For you to better understand the theme of man and nature in Romantic poetry, we also recommend that you read the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (1807) written by William Wordsworth. The poem focuses on the way nature can change a pe...