SOURCE: "William Blake: The Songs of Innocence," in Politics & Letters, Vol. 1, Nos. 2-3, Winter-Spring, 1947, pp. 9-14.
In the following essay, Bolt argues that the apparent naiveté of the Songs of Innocence is actually Blake's careful restriction of language, images, and verse techniques to create a pure "expression of innocence."
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