No questions for Wednesday: instead, I'll give you an in-class writing response based on some passage toward the end of the work. So make sure you finish reading (or ideally, re-reading!) the poem for Wednesday's class.
ALSO--here's an article that just came out in the BBC News: a mass grave from the 1820's was found with the bodies of thousands of children. These were children who died of various infections due to poor sanitation and disastrous living conditions during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution. This is the world Blake was writing about in "London," and that Wordsworth and Coleridge (among others) were railing against in their poetry. We'll see more of this condemnation on Friday for Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality."
You can read the article here: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-35408967?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook
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