Blake's visionary prose-poem overturning conventional morality, with its Proverbs of Hell and marriage of contraries. A radical Romantic manifesto.
Books mentioned in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1)
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “The history of this is written in Paradise Lost, and the Governor or Reason is called Messiah.”
Books that mention The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (4)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: “[54] William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 'Proverbs of Hell.'”
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell: “But then William Blake says in his wonderful series of aphorisms The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, "As I was walking among the fires of hell..."”
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: Quoted with citation: '(Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 10).'
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie: “One morning Allie, awaking from spent and dreamless sleep, found him immersed in her long-unopened copy of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell, in which her younger self, disrespectful of books, had made a number of marks: underlinings, ticks in the margins, exclamations, multiple queries.”