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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake) | William Blake
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This ebook is a series of texts, which were written in imitation of biblical books of prophecy, but expressing the poets own personal romantic and revolutionary beliefs. It is not exactly known when the work was written. One assumes it was composed in London between 1790 and 1793 , a period of political conflict arising immediately after the French Revolution. The book is about the first person narrators visit to Hell, a concept taken by Blake from Dantes Inferno and Miltons Paradise Lost. Apart from the opening Argument and the Song of Liberty, the entire book is written in prose. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was influenced by the mysticism of Swedish theosophist Emanuel Swedenborg and is also in part a satire on Emanuel Swedenborgs writings, especially on Heaven and Hell from which Blake adapted the title. William Blake (1757 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
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Faranae
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Reread this for my Twitch stream, including having the illustrated plates on the video for viewers. It's always such a wild ride, but this is my first time introducing it to others and seeing what they had to say. We also had fun trying to find all the little figures inside the textual portions of each plate. Lots of mermaids and birds, in addition to the dynamic little people. The Swedenborg burn worked even for non-Blakeans. 💀 🔥

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TheSpineView Perfect! 2y
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Rehesina

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

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Bookwomble
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"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

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Bookwomble
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"Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead."

- Proverbs of Hell

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Bookwomble
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"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."

- Proverbs of Hell

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erzascarletbookgasm
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This book of prose, poetry, and illustrations is said to be the most influential of Blake's works.
The book Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (which I‘ve recently read and recommend), takes its title from one of the Proverbs of Hell in the book.

#MagicalMay #Heaven

Eggs I‘ve always loved William Blake 👏🏻👏🏻 4y
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TheSpineView
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Andydear
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“But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine”

Is there anything quite as amazing as Blake making this call out plate? 🕯 🕯 ✨

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erzascarletbookgasm
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TrishB Lovely quote 💕 6y
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Lcsmcat
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TK-421 Perfect! I was thinking of using this one (or at least a reference to it from No One Here Gets Out Alive) since this is supposed to be where The Doors got the inspiration for their name🚪 (edited) 7y
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GoneFishing

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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GoneFishing

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

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GoneFishing

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

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Jamiedemo
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Without contraries is no progression.