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In the Romantic period, many authors make references to different social concerns. This enabled the authors to hint towards different concerns in their writing, but not come directly out and state their concerns. Three great examples of authors like this include: William Blake, Robert Burns, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Each of these authors had unique concerns that they were able to get across in their own way.
Blake wrote two poems with entitled "Chimney Sweeper." One version was found in his ‘Songs of Innocence' and the other was found in ‘Songs of Experience.' Although the first was told with a child almost in mind, and the second was told in a darker, colder point-of-view, they both contain the same concern. This concern is having very young children working as chimney sweepers. Blake talks about how you boys are almost forced into this career
"When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue,
Could scarcely cry "'weep! ‘weep! ‘weep!......

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