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Title	:	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Author	:	William Blake
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 48 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1994 by Dover Publications (first published 1790)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Philosophy. Religion. Art. Fiction. Literature. 18th Century

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Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature, William Blake (1757–1827) is today recognized as a major poet, a profound thinker, and one of the most original and exciting English artists. Nowhere is his glorious poetic and pictorial legacy more evident than in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, which many consider his most inspired and original work. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is both a humorous satire on religion and morality and a work that concisely expresses Blake's essential wisdom and philosophy, much of it revealed in the 70 aphorisms of his "Proverbs of Hell." This beautiful edition, reproduced from a rare facsimile, invites readers to enjoy the rich character of Blake's own hand-printed text along with his deeply stirring illustrations, reproduced on 27 full-color plates. A typeset transcription of the text is included.

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Original Title:	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
ISBN:	0486281221 (ISBN13: 9780486281223)
Edition Language:	English

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Blake is a poet, and in my humble opinion, quite a good one. This little work was full of striking imagery and effective poetic devices. But with that said...Blake is a poet, and says nothing clearly. The only thing that is clear is that he has some criticisms of Christianity. What they are exactly, or if there are any solutions, is entirely up to the reader to guess.

"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence".I believe Blake wants to prove the duality of human nature and the immoral purpose of religion to "destroy existence" by trying to "reconcile the two". You'll find well known arguments by now, but revolutionary and highly controversial for the time this was published, like: - the body is not distinct from the soul; - religion is a human product used to "enslave

DNF. Quit at the "Proverbs of Hell" because yikes. Absolutely baffling, and honestly, the art and calligraphy didn't impress me either. Though I do think the format is a cool one in books.

The Proverbs of Hell are a chilling and disturbingly saccharine peek into the psychological profile of the Human experience. Check out the Dover edition which has reproduced the original plates in facsimile and full color!

i simply can't add to many of the immortal lines found in the book such as, "When the doors of perception are cleansed, everything will appear as it is, infinite." thank God for the voice known as william blake.

I love Blake. He always manages to touch something in my heart. There's a reason the only poem I know by heart is one of his. And whether it's with words, or with paint (The Night of Enitharmon's Joy is a personal favourite), or with his etchings (another personal favourite: 'Europe supported'. At first, it looks like a picture with 3 pretty, naked girls, then you realise it is harsh social commentary, that still rings true today), he always manages to make you think.The Marriage of Heaven and

This, the most immediately accessible of Blake's longer works, is vigorous, deliberately outrageous, and at times comic, onslaught against many of the stock opinions of orthodox christian piety and morality. The seeming simplicity of bake's satiric attitude, however, is deceptive.Initially, Blake accepts the terminology of middle-class Christian morality ("what the religious call Good and Evil") but reverses its values, In this conventional use of evil, which is manifested by the class the class