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... Marriage the opposition between the Prophet and the Priest , and from that opposition the poem takes the form of Mental Fight . ( Unlike The French Revolution , however , the Marriage cloaks its contemporary political reference in ...
... Marriage the opposition between the Prophet and the Priest , and from that opposition the poem takes the form of Mental Fight . ( Unlike The French Revolution , however , the Marriage cloaks its contemporary political reference in ...
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... Marriage , the tone is ironic . If " god " is a jealous Nobodaddy or Urizen , he is himself a god who curses his progeny when he finds them unable to keep his iron laws . To love such a god necessarily involves cursing the deities of ...
... Marriage , the tone is ironic . If " god " is a jealous Nobodaddy or Urizen , he is himself a god who curses his progeny when he finds them unable to keep his iron laws . To love such a god necessarily involves cursing the deities of ...
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... Marriage of Heaven and Hell carries on Mental Fight not only in the conflict of principles and clash of voices , but also in the active confrontation of possi- ble worlds . 11 No other poem of Blake's seems so confident of revolution ...
... Marriage of Heaven and Hell carries on Mental Fight not only in the conflict of principles and clash of voices , but also in the active confrontation of possi- ble worlds . 11 No other poem of Blake's seems so confident of revolution ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Poetic Genius and Mental Fight | 20 |
Los in the Lambeth Prophecies | 49 |
Copyright | |
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