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“DOES THY GOD O PRIEST TAKE SUCH VENGEANCE, AS THIS?” ERROR, SIN, ATTRIBUTION OF JUSTICE AND THE DOCTRINE OF FORGIVENESS OF SINS IN BLAKE’S THEOLOGY.
(SGEM World Science, 2021, Georgia Dimitrakopoulou)
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In plate 141 For the Sexes - the Gates of Paradise, copy D, Blake by asking: “Does thy God O Priest take such vengeance, as this” refers to the story of Count Ugolino as it is described in Dante’s Divine Comedy - Inferno Canto XIII (33). The subject of Blake’s preoccupation is the conflict between the Devourer and the Prolific as it was developed in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell in 1789. The conflict between the adverse forces of life, good versus evil, formed ‘two different kind of philosophies’- as Yeats calle...
ART & HUMANITIES: Section Medieval & Renaissance Studies2021
