"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"

Keeping with the theme of Reason vs. Passion, I'd like to now apply it to the ideology of my critic, William Blake, who wrote an entire epic poem addressing this battle.

"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" tells of an epic descent into hell in the vein of Dante's "Inferno" and Milton's "Paradise Lost". However, Blake's Heaven and Hell in this book are completely reversed from Dante's or Milton's, where Hell is depicted as a burning torture chamber and Heaven a perfect paradise. Blake's Heaven is, effectively, the terrain of the reality principle, and Hell a land where passion reigns. Blake's obvious defense of Hell is testimony to his philosophies as a poet and critic: that all of life should be drawn from imagination, energy, and passion.