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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

    By William Blake and Mint Editions

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    Written in the form of biblical prophecy, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell presents philosophical ideas about God, humanity and the complex nature of ethics. It’s a bold yet humorous examination of binary belief systems and their conflicting principles.

    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a remarkable narrative that explores common religious themes such as good versus evil. The author uses vibrant storytelling to expand on the importance of these contradictory terms. He details how competing ideals are integral to the human experience. Without them, a person may remain stagnant and never reach their full potential. Progress cannot occur without the tension stemming from love and hate, reason and energy, or attraction and repulsion.

    William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell uses stunning visuals and metaphors to discuss the nuances of man. His unique perspective highlights fundamental differences that embody the human condition. Within the text, Blake investigates the greatness the is often found in struggle.

    With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is both modern and readable.

    Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

    With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMint Editions
    Release dateDec 8, 2020
    ISBN9781513274331
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    William Blake

    William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet and visual artist often linked to the Romantic movement. As a youth in London, he was primarily educated at home before becoming an engraver’s apprentice. Later, Blake would attend the Royal Academy and eventually find work in publishing. His debut, Poetical Sketches, was printed in 1783 followed by Songs of Innocence in 1789. The latter is arguably his most popular collection due to its vivid imagery and thought-provoking themes.

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    • 5/5
      I first encountered this part visionary / part comic / part poetry / part etching long poem in 1969, in an English class, while an Engineering student at Cornell University. I had grown up a kid scientist, and my hope was that I'd become a NASA engineer. I was also very much in my head and not so much in my body, in the world of logic and not so much the world of emotion. Blake's poem convince me I had to change all that or I'd live out my days a reduced version of myself. This powerful piece reached out to me over many decades and 6000 miles and changed not only my focus (from Engineering to English major) but also set in motion a process of actualizing the more suppressed parts of myself, a lifelong activity that began then and there. Thank you, Mr. Blake!

      - David
    • 5/5
      The illuminations accompanying Blake's poetry should be considered necessary to the reading of his poems. The illuminations are beautiful, descriptive, obviously terribly time consuming and should not be counted as something separate from the words. That said, sometimes it is difficult to read the poems on the illuminations, as they were meant to be read. This book provides the complete illuminations followed by the poems sans illumination, for ease of reading.
    • 5/5
      The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
      Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
      The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
      The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
      The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
      The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
      Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.
    • 5/5
      One of my two or three favorite poetical works of all time. A great source of wisdom and one of the few works in which Blake reveals a sense of humor.
    • 3/5
      Zeer mooie, geïllustreerde uitgave; is het meest bekende werk van William Blake.

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    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake

    THE ARGUMENT

    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 bleached 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 of Edom, and the return of Adam into Paradise.—See Isaiah xxxiv. and xxxv. chap.

    Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

    From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil. Good is the passive that obeys reason; Evil is the active springing from Energy.

    Good is heaven. Evil is hell.

    THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL

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