Re: wisdom again

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yes, but Swedenborg is parodied for expressing the virtues of Heaven in
Blake's peice, not Hell.  Hell is the virtuious force in the piece.  I
didn't get the impression that the Hell being virtuious was satire.
Evidence to support this: he satires just he opposite views in his songs
of innocence and experience.  I'm thinking of the flower poems really --
about the virgin who dies without reaching the sun and so on.  

-j
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, James J Rovira wrote:

> 
> Gotta be careful what you say about Blake from his Marriage of Heaven and
> Hell -- that was satire directed toward his former guru Swedenborg who
> had a book out by the same title...
> 
> Jim
> 
> >hmm probably not Blake, considering "Songs of Innocence and 
> >Experience"
> >and "Marriage of Heaven and Hell."   He basically indicates his belief
> >that the beastial pleasures, and excess, are the paths to 
> >enlightnment.
> >
> >-j
> >

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