50. Proverbs of Hell III

Published: June 12, 2021, 5:23 p.m.

b'In this third part of an ongoing session, we look at the poet, printer and radical William Blake\'s "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, arguable his first attempt - written between the years 1798 and 1803, coincident with the start and subsequent bending of the French Revolution - to articulate a personal philosophy. In these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading of this perfect articulation of things were still working out.'