The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (eBook)

‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy by William Blake, an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. The text expresses Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. The book is about the narrator's visit to Hell, a concept taken by Blake from Dantes's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost. Apart from the opening Argument and the Song of Liberty, the entire book is written in prose. It was influenced by the mysticism of Swedish theosophist Emanuel Swedenborg and is also in part a satire on Emanuel Swedenborg's writings, especially on Heaven and Hell from which Blake adopted the title.

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