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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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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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PublisherMaria
Release dateSep 13, 2017
ISBN9788826402512
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William Blake

William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet and artist and one of the most important members of the Romantic movement.

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    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake

    THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

    BY

    WILLIAM BLAKE

    First digital edition 2017 by Maria Ruggieri

    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 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 fires in the burden’d air;

    Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

    As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent, the Eternal Hell revives. And lo!

    Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded up. Now is the dominion

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