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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

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    William Blake was an English poet and artist during the Romantic Age.  Though Blake’s work was not well known during his lifetime, he is now considered to be one of the greatest poets of his time.  This edition of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531279998
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    William Blake

    William Blake was born in London in 1757. He was apprenticed to a master engraver and then studied at the Royal Academy under the guidance of Joshua Reynolds. In 1789 he engraved and published Songs of Innocence and the contrasting Songs of Experience came later in 1794. A poet, painter and printmaker of great originality and imagination, his work was largely unrecognized during his lifetime and he struggled to make a living. Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He died in 1827.

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      The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake

      THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

      ..................

      William Blake

      KYPROS PRESS

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      Copyright © 2016 by William Blake

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

      THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

      ..................

      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

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