1. Blake: AO 3 & 4 Take notes on the following.
Try to use aspects of this information where it seems relevant.
Do not, however, feel that you have to “shoe-horn” everything you know into every response.
When you draw on the additional material like the following, it should make the difference of an extra 1-3 sentences.

2. T.S. Eliot on Blake (from Schmidt 1998)
Modernist poet T.S. Eliot approved of Blake’s early work. He was particularly impressed with the fact that Blake was, to a great extent, an autodidact (self-educated).
For Eliot, Blake’s apprenticeship as an engraver was a boon; it meant he avoided the restrictions of journalism (professional writing) or formal training in fine art.
Eliot believed that formal education, and the “accumulation of knowledge” it promotes, led to conformity.
Eliot is being somewhat sentimental, perhaps: Blake did train as an engraver through the Royal Academy of Art!
Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets (1998)

3. All Religions Are One & There Is No Natural Religion (1788)
The following texts are Blake’s earliest illuminated works.
The pages of the books were around half the size of a playing card.
The texts are brief, but rather dense and abstract. They can be read as philosophical manifestos.
You do not need to memorize, exactly, quotations from these texts.
However, understanding some of their main points, and being able to reference them, might enrich your understanding of the Songs and help with AOs 2, 3, 4 in the exam.

4. Wikipedia
The Wikipedia entries for both texts are excellent: they include grid-arrangements of the plates, text, descriptions and interpretations/notes.

7. There is No Natural Religion
Summarize the argument presented in this text. Notes/1-3 sentences. Be ready to read/feed back to class.
Recap links from yesterday, between All Religions and No Natural
Any further links between the texts?
Links between these texts and the poems we’ve studied.

8. How significant do you think the idea of natural freedom is to Songs of Innocence and Experience?
Write one paragraph in response to this past question.
Make reference to at least one poem, as well as to All Religions are One and There is No Natural Religion.
Reference to “Poetic Genius” and “Prophecy” is enough for All Religions No Natural Religion…
However, be sure to quote from the poem(s) – AND NO TEXTS!!

9. Consider: Extension/Challenge Compare
All Religions
Argument; Principles 1, 2, 3, 5, 7
No Natural
Argument; a V; b I, IV, VI-end.
Extension/Challenge
Compare
bIV: “The bounded is loathed by its possessor”
“The great and golden rule of art, as well as of life, is this: That the more distinct, sharp, and wirey the bounding line, the more perfect the work of art; and the less keen and sharp, the greater is the evidence of weak imitation, plagiarism, and bungling. Great inventors, in all ages, knew this.” (Blake, A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures [1809]; an accompanying catalogue for one of Blake’s exhibitions)
What might the two contrasting senses of “bound-ed/-ing” be here?
Can you link these passages to “Earth’s Answer”?

10. And finally...
Do you think you could apply any of this material to your interpretations of Blake?