Blake's most concentrated philosophical work — an attack on the dualism of Good and Evil, a defense of Energy against Reason, and a series of Proverbs of Hell.
The Proverbs of Hell: 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom' — Blake's most quotable work. The reversal of conventional values: 'Energy is Eternal Delight' — the devil speaks truth, the angel speaks falsehood. The critique of Swedenborg: whose angels are really devils, and whose heaven is really hell. The plate 'A Song of Liberty': a compressed prophecy of revolution. Blake's poetics of contraries: without contraries there is no progression.
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