Rational vs. Imaginative: William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"

At a time when the Church was a central authority and possessed great political power using religion as a constraining force over people, The Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries "was a critical reaction against traditional authority"1 (p.7). During this time period, multiple explanations of the rational and the imaginative emerged from faith and scientific law. Réné Descartes and Isaac Newton are principal figures when it comes …

…The Gideons International. p. 503 - 507 Tim Wilson, Drama and Poetry ENG 1121, Ottawa, Canada March 24, 2005 http://www.geocities.com/nomadology2003/1121 *March 14/15: -Background: Romanticism pg. 1, 2* Wiersbe, Warren. Bible Commentary NEW TESTAMENT. (NKJV, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1991), 15 - 90 *the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John* William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," in The Norton Anthology of English Literature The Major Authors, ed. MH Abrams. (7th ed. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. 2001),1377 - 1387