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  2. Notebook of William Blake - Wikipedia

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    After death of Robert in February 1787, Blake inherited the volume beginning it with the series of sketches for many emblematic designs on a theme of life of a man from his birth to death. Then, reversing the book he wrote on its last pages a series of poems of c. 1793. He continued the book in 1800s returning to the first pages.

  3. Psychomachia - Wikipedia

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    British Library, Add MS 24199, part 1, 10th century Psychomachia, as the "battle between good and evil", on a Romanesque capital, Monastery of Sant Cugat, Catalonia, Spain. The Psychomachia (Battle of Spirits or Soul War) is a Latin poem by Prudentius, writing during the late antiquity early in the fifth century CE. [1]

  4. Paradise Lost - Wikipedia

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    Milton seeks to "justify the ways of God to men," addressing questions of predestination, human agency, and the nature of good and evil. The poem begins in medias res, with Satan and his fallen angels cast into Hell after their failed rebellion against God. Milton's Satan, portrayed with both grandeur and tragic ambition, is one of the most ...

  5. Sonnet 144 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 144 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.

  6. Auguries of Innocence - Wikipedia

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    The first few lines of the poem were quoted in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider [3] and in Devil May Cry 5 [4] by the character V. . The poem has recently [when?] regained popular acclaim on Twitter, with users quoting the introduction of the poem in response to the demands of modern life.

  7. Beyond Good and Evil - Wikipedia

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    Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft) is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that covers ideas in his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra but with a more polemical approach. It was first published in 1886 under the publishing house C. G ...

  8. Good and evil - Wikipedia

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    Meta-ethics is the study of the fundamental questions concerning the nature and origins of the good and the evil, including inquiry into the nature of good and evil, as well as the meaning of evaluative language. In this respect, meta-ethics is not necessarily tied to investigations into how others see the good, or of asserting what is good.

  9. A Poison Tree - Wikipedia

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    The poem's theme of duplicity and the inevitable conclusion is similar to the anonymous poem "There Was a man of Double Deed." [17] The image of the tree appears in many of Blake's poems and seems connected to his concept of the Fall of Man. It is possible to read the narrator as a divine figure who uses the tree to seduce mankind into disgrace.