Author : William Blake
Release : 2016-09-19
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Book Synopsis The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by : William Blake

Download or read book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell written by William Blake. This book was released on 2016-09-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake 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. Like his other books, it was published as printed sheets from etched plates containing prose, poetry and illustrations. The plates were then coloured by Blake and his wife Catherine. Blake's theory of contraries was not a belief in opposites but rather a belief that each person reflects the contrary nature of God, and that progression in life is impossible without contraries. Moreover, he explores the contrary nature of reason and of energy, believing that two types of people existed: the "energetic creators" and the "rational organizers," or, as he calls them in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the "devils" and "angels." Both are necessary to life according to Blake. Blake's text has been interpreted in many ways. It certainly forms part of the revolutionary culture of the period. The references to the printing-house suggest the underground radical printers producing revolutionary pamphlets at the time. Ink-blackened printworkers were comically referred to as a "printer's devil," and revolutionary publications were regularly denounced from the pulpits as the work of the devil.