Lyric Life

William Blake, "The Lamb"


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Literature: so innocuous, right? Except it's not. On this episode of Lyric Life, I take on Blake's "The Lamb," a companion piece to his poem "The Tyger"--and a companion episode to the one on this podcast about that other poem. There, I told you a conversion narrative. Here, in a poem about innocence, I tell you some of the rest of my story: a descent into hell. Literature's not innocuous. It's dangerous. Every word of it.
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Lyric LifeBy Mark Scarbrough