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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Oxford Paperbacks) | 
 enlarge | Author: William Blake
Creator: Geoffrey Keynes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 351330
Media: Paperback
Edition: Facsimile Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 82
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0192811673
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780192811677
ASIN: 0192811673
Publication Date: October 30, 1975
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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" September 6, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
"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 February 11, 2003
14 out of 21 found this review helpful
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 April 21, 2001
16 out of 24 found this review helpful
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. November 17, 2000
19 out of 24 found this review helpful
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 April 12, 2000
3 out of 73 found this review helpful
Many of the ideas in this book are very contradicting to the bible. Read C.S. Lewis' responce to this book "The Great Divorce".
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