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Developing background knowledge about 'London' by William Blake

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'London' was published in 1794. William Blake was an English poet and artist who believed in social and racial equality. In the poem, the narrator is describing a walk around the city of London. Romanticism was a movement in art and literature. Romantic poets were often critical of industrialisation and valued the simplicity and purity of rural life.

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