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Section A: Introductory Activities

Activity 1: ‘The Sick Rose’ Alternative Readings

• http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/indexworks.htm

Activity 2: What Do We Know About William Blake?

Emanuel Swedenborg

• http://www.newchurch.org/about/swedenborg
• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/576681/Emanuel-Swedenborg

Tom Paine

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/paine_01.shtml
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine

Mary Wollstonecraft

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/wollstonecraft_01.shtml
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wollstonecraft/

Activity 7: Exploring the Engravings

• http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=songsie&java=yes

Section B: Links between the Poems

Activity 2: ‘The Echoing Green’ and ‘The Garden of Love’

• http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=songsie&java=yes

Section C: Analysing Single Poems

Activity 1: ‘The Little Black Boy’

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism

Section E: Whole-collection Activities

Form and Structure

Rhythm

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_(poetry)
• http://www.rjdent.com/a-collaboration-of-unlike-minds-robert-graves-and-william-blakes-tiger-by-rjdent/