Marriage of Heaven and Hell (version 2)
By William Blake · Running time 00:34:33 · Poetry
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"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." The Marriage of Heaven & Hell is William Blake’s masterpiece – a piously blasphemous reimagining of the duality of good and evil as an eternal dance of equally essential polarities. Good, in Blake’s complex cosmology, is defined by a blind deference to the external, rational order embodied by the tyrant and the priest. Evil is the chaotic and revolutionary impulse that defies all reason and authority. While Blake’s sympathies are clearly with the Romantic revolutionary, he argues for the necessity of both sides, which create balance through t
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