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    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    By William Blake

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    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. The book is written in prose, except for the opening “Argument” and the “Song of Liberty”, and describes the poet's visit to Hell.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYoucanprint
    Release dateJan 19, 2018
    ISBN9788827806807
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    William Blake

    William Blake was born in London in 1757. He was apprenticed to a master engraver and then studied at the Royal Academy under the guidance of Joshua Reynolds. In 1789 he engraved and published Songs of Innocence and the contrasting Songs of Experience came later in 1794. A poet, painter and printmaker of great originality and imagination, his work was largely unrecognized during his lifetime and he struggled to make a living. Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He died in 1827.

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      The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake

      Table of Contents

      THE ARGUMENT

      THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL

      A MEMORABLE FANCY - 1

      PROVERBS OF HELL

      A MEMORABLE FANCY - 2

      A MEMORABLE FANCY - 3

      A MEMORABLE FANCY - 4

      A MEMORABLE FANCY - 5

      A SONG OF LIBERTY

      CHORUS

      THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

      BY

      WILLIAM BLAKE

      First digital edition 2018 by Maria Ruggieri

      THE ARGUMENT

      Engraved circa 1790

      Rintrah roars, and shakes his fires in the burden’d air;

      Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

      Once meek, and in a perilous path,

      The just man kept his course along

      The vale of death.

      Roses are planted where thorns grow,

      And on the barren heath

      Sing the honey bees.

      Then the perilous path was planted,

      And a river and a spring

      On every cliff and tomb,

      And on the bleachèd bones

      Red clay brought forth;

      Till the villain left the paths of ease,

      To walk in perilous paths, and drive

      The just man into barren climes.

      Now the sneaking serpent walks

      In mild humility,

      And the just man rages in the wilds

      Where lions roam.

      Rintrah roars, and shakes his fires in the burden’d air;

      Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

      As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent, the Eternal Hell revives. And lo!

      Swedenborg is the Angel

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