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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.
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William Blake (1757-1827) was a nonconformist who associated with some of the leading radical thinkers of his day, such as Thomas Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft. A skilled engraver and illustrator, his illustrated poetry collections resembled the illuminated books of the Middle Ages.
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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 - 5
A SONG OF LIBERTY
CHORUS
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 Gianluca Ruffini
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
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