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Romantic Philosophy in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The Romantic period produced more poets who, at one time or another, aspired to become philosophers than in any other period in English literature. The Romantic poets felt a need for a metaphysical structure that would, conceptually, make explicit the mind set that had emerged from am era of revolutionary change in art, politics, and society. William Blake is one the philosophical poets of the era …

…Hell teaches that the essence of humanity lies in creative thought. Blake points out in a language that is understood by all that society's strictness and tendency to label things as good or evil work only to oppress the never ending flow of creativity that is inside every man. He shows that the revolution was not only a revolt against monarchy but a revolt against the rigid moral codes set down on them by society.