When the Industrial Revolution emerged from the ashes of the previous century, a new movement also emerged simultaneously. This movement as defined by one of its creators Williamworth was, in the preface to their work in collaboration with Samuel Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin in an emotion collected in tranquility. » (Wordsworth 1) Although the definition corresponded to the psychological and literary situation of the time, some Romantic authors existed outside the definition. William Blake was different and defined as a pre-Romantic author by scholars. (Meibauer 184) Unlike other Romantic authors, Blake did not regularly use the theme of nature. (Mcgann 738) In his works, he depicts the problems of the newly industrialized society and attempts to highlight the world in the eyes of ordinary people, especially children. The Chimney Sweep is the name of two poems by William Blake. He created these poems to highlight the problems of children in industrialized Britain and to emphasize the duties of the British government (Erdman 228). Everyone knew that chimney sweeping was a dirty business and that many children died from drunkenness and unsanitary working conditions. Blake wanted to show these issues to the world and he wrote the book Songs of Innocence which was also illustrated by himself. The first poem “The Chimney Sweep” was written in a more childish language. As the title, Songs of Innocence, indicates, the narrator had an innocent tone and he accepted his fate. His father sent him to work when he was a baby. All he could do was scream, “I could barely cry!” 'cry! 'cry! 'cry!' (3) Although he worked under difficult conditions...... middle of paper...... and perhaps he unwittingly changed the course of English literature. After his revolutionary literary works, the man of letters influenced by him created a new literary movement for all the innocent… Works CitedBlake, William Songs of Innocence and Experience. /Princeton University Press, 1991. Print.Erdman, David V.. Blake: Prophet Against Empire 1991. Electronic book. Gillespie, Gerald, Manfred Engel, Bernard Dieterle and Bettina Meibauer. romantic." Romantic prose fiction. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Pub. Co, 2008. Web. December 10, 2013. McGann, Jerome. "Rethinking Romanticism." ELH, 59. 3 (1992): 735-754. JSTOR. Internet. December 10, 2013. Wordsworth, William and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: Penguin, 2006. Print..