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 | | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Oxford Paperbacks) by William Blake, Geoffrey Keynes (Editor) ISBN-10: 9780192811677 ISBN-10: 0-19-281167-3 ISBN-13: 9780192811677 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-281167-7 Paperback 1975-10-30 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description These two collections of Blake's finest and best-loved poems--printed on vellum--offer the text of each poem in letterpress on the page facing a beautiful color reproduction of the design Blake created to illustrate the particular poem. | ||
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"The Great Divorce" "The Great Divorce" wasn't Lewis's "response" to Blake. Even Lewis was smart enough to admit that he wasn't anywhere near Blake's level. Read his introduction to that book again. | ||
It's not about the bible The other reviewers are missing the point. Blake did not believe in the Christian ideology enought to want to contradict the bible. He believed that god is a construction of the human imagination, the Poetic Genius (read "All Relgions are One" and "There is no Natural Religion"). To speak in terms of religiosity, he had to use Christian terminology (Ezekial, Isiah, Satan...) because the language of religion was created this way, and Blake was forced to speak in those terms before developing his own language system. The bible contradicts itself; Blake's writing and thinking transcend that superficial level. | ||
contradiction As far as the ideas in this book contradicting the bible; that particular opinion is completely wrong. The only way one could think so is to have missed the fact that the entire book is a viciously ironic and satirical commentary on those who would claim to represent Christianity while in actuality profaning it. Only the "angels" miss this fact. And as far as C.S. Lewis is concerned, he is as weak when reading Blake as he is when reading Milton. | ||
The Bible is not the definitive authority on quality. I fail to see how whether or not this book is contradictory to the bible is any indictation of whether it is good or not. | ||
Contradicing the bible Many of the ideas in this book are very contradicting to the bible. Read C.S. Lewis' responce to this book "The Great Divorce". | ||