The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Interpretation

Interpretation

Blake's text has been interpreted in many ways. It certainly forms part of the revolutionary culture of the period. The references to the printing house suggest the underground radical printers producing revolutionary pamphlets at the time. Ink-blackened print workers were comically referred to as a "Printer's devil" and revolutionary publications were regularly denounced from the pulpits as the work of the devil.

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