Politically speaking, Blake was a radical of his time, with a natural opposition to tyranny accompanied with distrust of authority wherever he found it, be it in priests, kings or politicians. He particularly attacked established values and the institutions of his time, namely the church. He also showed aggression towards the conventional views of society, like social issues, slavery and religion. A modern reader recognizes Blake to have ideas well beyond his time, as many of these problems still exist today. The difference being that nineteenth Century England regarded these `evils' as the norm of society. In `the songs of Innocence and Experience', Blake seems to attack these very things, where we see the same situation through the lens of innocence, that is the world of the true God of love and acceptance, whereas `the...