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 | | In his essay, "Infinite London," 1959, David Erdman alludes to "THE Chimney Sweeper" of Experience, suggesting that Blake is directly responding to the sympathies of groups such as The Association for Preserving the Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers, pamphleteers who believed that the poor were a necessary part of society. |
 | | Zachary Leader, in 1981, questions the role of the speaker in the first stanza of "THE Chimney Sweeper" of Experience, noting that this voice is manipulating both the sweep as object of pity and the reader as the audience of a polemic. |
 | | Placing both sweeper poems in a historical context, Claire Lamont, 1991, points out that Blake's poems and Charles Lamb's essay, "The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers," "are among the earliest literary works on the painful subject of the child chimney-sweeper." Lamont explicates the poems, highlighting their realism. |
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