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ok, so years ago, a guy told me I needed to read The Great Divorce by C!.S!. Lewis!. but when I got the book and read the introduction I learned that the book was an answer to William Blake's Marriage of Hevean and Hell!. So I looked up that book in a library and in the introduction, it said that THAT book was an answer to an earlier work!. I wrote down the name and tried looking it up in the library, but couldn't find it!. After a time, I lost the name!.

Today I went to another library to look up Marriage of Heaven and Hell and found a different version of it with an introduction by a different scholar!. This one didn't say anything about an earlier work that Blake was responding to!.

I want to know if anyone knows what earlier work Blake was answering to when he wrote Marriage of Heaven and Hell!. Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
This may not be very helpful because I haven't read any introductions by scholars, but in the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake repeatedly mentions Swedenborg throughout the whole work and seems to be fairly critical of him, so maybe that is what you are thinking of!?

Hopefully this helps too:
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Swedenborg

Good luck
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Blake was influenced by Swedenborg, but I'd guess the piece you saw said the poem was a response to Milton's Paradise Lost!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

William Blake's
The Marriage of Heaven and HellWww@QuestionHome@Com