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When the industrial revolution emerged from the ashes of the previous century, a new movement also emerged at the same time. This movement, as defined by one of its creators Williamworth, was, in the preface of their collaborative work Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Coleridge, ""the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it originates from emotions collected in tranquility. "(Wordsworth 1) Although The definition corresponded to the psychological and literary situation of the time, a pair of Romantic authors existed outside the definition. William Blake was different and defined by the pre-Romantic author scholar. (Meibauer 184) Unlike the other authors romantics, Blake did not regularly use the theme of nature. (Mcgann 738) In his works he described the problems of the newly industrialized society and tried to emphasize the world in the eyes of ordinary people, in particular of children. The chimney sweep is the name of the two poems by William Blake. Everyone knew the profession of the chimney sweep it was dirty and that many children had died due to intoxication and unsanitary working conditions. Blake wanted to show this problem to the world and wrote the book Songs of Innocence, also illustrated by himself. The first poem "The Chimney Sweep" was written in a more childish language. As indicated in the title, Songs of Innocence, the narrator had an innocent tone and accepted his fate. His father sent him to work when he was a child. All she could do was cry, "I couldn't cry 'cry!" 'cry! 'cry! 'cried!' (3) Even though he was working under difficult conditions... in mid-paper... and perhaps unintentionally changed the course of English literature. After his groundbreaking literary pieces, literati who were influenced by him created a new literary movement for all the innocent people out there. Especially for the chimney sweeps... Works Cited Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience. Princeton, NJ: William Blake Trust/Princeton University Press, 1991. Print.Erdman, David See. Blake: Prophet Against Empire. 1991. E-book.Gillespie, Gerald, Manfred Engel, Bernard Dieterle, and Bettina Meibauer. "Images of Childhood in Romantic Prose Fiction." . Benjamins Pub. 2008. Web. 10 December 2013. McGann, "Rethinking Romanticism." 59.3 (1992): 735-754. JSTOR. Network. 10 Dec 2013. Wordsworth, William and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyric Ballads. London: Penguin.