Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience” provide us with two - usually contrasting - views on an issue or theme. Religion has also been dealt with in this way. Typically, his Songs of Innocence reflect more of his own unorthodox views on religion, whilst those of Experience show his opinion of organised religion as it [...]

During medieval times, the church was at the absolute centre of everything. One tenth of every working man’s output went to the church in a form of taxation, and attendance at church was expected without fail. Chaucer presents this grip that religion had over people through the very context of his tales, which takes place [...]