An Attempt to Translate Some Poems into Bengali from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience of William Blake

Abstract

William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the best poets of English Literature. He is considered a precursor of the Romantic Movement. He is frequently classed with the romantic writers - particularly Wordsworth and Coleridge, who were roughly his contemporaries. Romanticism laid considerable stress on the elements of imagination, nature worship, humanitarianism, liberty, mysticism, pastoralism, and symbolism. It differed from the outlook expounded by the preceding era of Neo-classicism, which promoted the notion of reason, balance and logic with regard to prose and poetry. The romantic belief of poetry rests in recording the simple emotions of humanity in simple diction. Recollection of childhood is also a common subject of romanticism.