The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

About this book

The Devil argues with an angel, proverbs overturn conventional wisdom, and a journey through Heaven and Hell reveals the unstable border between what society calls good and evil.

William Blake's illuminated work is brief, unruly and full of deliberately shocking reversals. He challenges passive obedience and celebrates energy as a vital force, while his visionary imagery refuses the neat categories of conventional moral teaching. In the original coloured plates, words, flames and human figures occupy the same restless space.