William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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William Blake’s *The Marriage of Heaven and Hell* is a visionary late-18th-century illuminated book that blends poetry, prose, and engravings to challenge conventional morality and religious doctrine through paradoxical explorations of good, evil, and human perception.

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instanceOf illuminated book
poetic prose work
prophetic work
approximateNumberOfPlates 27
associatedWithAuthorCycle Blake’s early prophetic books
author William Blake NERFINISHED
centralTheme critique of organized religion
imagination and perception
revaluation of good and evil
spiritual rebellion
union of contraries
completionDate circa 1793
contains aphorisms
engraved illustrations
poetry
prose
countryOfOrigin Great Britain NERFINISHED
famousLine "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
"Without Contraries is no progression."
famousSection Proverbs of Hell NERFINISHED
firstPublicationDate circa 1790
form illuminated printing
genre philosophical poetry
religious satire
visionary literature
influenceOn 20th-century counterculture
Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception NERFINISHED
Romantic literature
modern mysticism
language English
literaryDevice irony
paradox
visionary imagery
literaryPeriod Romanticism NERFINISHED
medium hand-colored engraving
relief etching
narrativeVoice prophetic narrator
parodiesOrCritiques Emanuel Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell NERFINISHED
philosophicalInfluence Christian mysticism
Emanuel Swedenborg NERFINISHED
Enlightenment thought
questionsConcept conventional morality
institutional church authority
orthodox notions of good and evil
religiousPerspective heterodox Christianity
repositoryOfNotableCopy Bodleian Library NERFINISHED
British Museum NERFINISHED
Library of Congress NERFINISHED
structure series of plates

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