Dan Miller (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: "Contrary Revelation: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," in Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 24, No. 4, Winter, 1985, pp. 491-509.
[In this essay, Miller questions the critical assessment of The Marriage as a revolutionary document, suggesting instead that it is far more paradoxical than the usual manifesto.]
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell holds a special place in the Blake canon. It marks the transition from the early works, in which Blake's poetic vision is articulated primarily in...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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