Blake, William
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker
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William Blake.
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature, William Blake is today recognized as a major poet, a profound thinker, and one of the most original and exciting English artists.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is both a humorous satire on religion and morality and a work that concisely expresses Blake's wisdom and philosophy, much of it revealed in the 70 aphorisms of his "Proverbs of Hell.".
The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical ferment and political conflict during the French Revolution.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell stands out for its combination of genres (poetry and prose, Menippean satire and cultural history) and its heterodox perspectives.
Sneak Peek
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
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