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The Arts: The A-Z of William Blake - `H' Is For The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20001114
Author:Kevin Jackson

THIS EARLY work , first issued in 1793, is an almost unexampled mixture of satire and philosophy. Conceived partly as a rebuke to his mentor Swedenborg, it has attracted extravagant praise: S Foster Damon's claims that it is "Blake's Principia, in which he announced a new concept of the universe", and "the first manifesto of modern psychology". For Blake, Heaven and Hell are not so much our destinations in the next world as opposed states of mind within every one of us - corresponding, perhaps, to what later psychologists would term the super-ego and the id. At the same time, the work offers ...

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