This was going to be on "The Songs of Experience" (watch this space), but in order to discuss what Blake meant by the word "experience" we took a look at his 1788 tract <a href='https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/noa/pdf/blake_All_Religions_Are_One.pdf'>"All Religions Are One"</a> (printed just before "The Songs of Innocence"), which led to a long discussion of the dialectic between Plato and Locke and a counter-dialectic in Blake against both Plato and Locke.

This was going to be on "The Songs of Experience" (watch this space), but in order to discuss what Blake meant by the word "experience" we took a look at his 1788 tract "All Religions Are One" (printed just before "The Songs of Innocence"), which led to a long discussion of the dialectic between Plato and Locke and a counter-dialectic in Blake against both Plato and Locke.

This was going to be on "The Songs of Experience" (watch this space), but in order to discuss what Blake meant by the word "experience" we took a look at his 1788 tract <a href="https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/noa/pdf/blake_All_Religions_Are_One.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">"All Religions Are One"</a> (printed just before "The Songs of Innocence"), which led to a long discussion of the dialectic between Plato and Locke and a counter-dialectic in Blake&nbsp;against both Plato and Locke.

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