The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake. It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. Unlike that of Milton or Dante, Blake's conception of Hell begins not as a place of punishment, but as a source of unrepressed, somewhat Dionysian energy, opposed to the authoritarian and regulated perception of Heaven. Blake's purpose is to create what he called a "memorable fancy" in order to reveal the repressive nature of conventional morality and institutional religion, which he describes thus: "The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

Author: William Blake
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 11/17/2017
Pages: 30
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.12lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.06d
ISBN13: 9781979835992
ISBN10: 1979835993
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General

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