...of Heaven and Hell, usually totally misunderstood because quoted only in part: "Note: The reason why Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels &...true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it" (Blake 1972, 150). The true poet is, indeed, a maker, engaging in an activity as close as anything...

...374). 39 Milton 10: 1. 40 Cf. his famous remark in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Erdman, p. 35: 'The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it'. In this context,...

...The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God. and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. (Wittreich 1970: 35. Unless otherwise indicated all page references for the Romantics on Milton...

...famous remark in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Erdman, p. 35: 'The reason Milton wrote in tetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it'. In this context,...

...of angels who see the world the wrong way around. Blake writes, at the very beginning of the poem, "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote...Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it" (plate 6). In addition, it is the "mighty Devil folded in black clouds"...

...memorable response to Paradise Lost occurs in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-3). where he notes that "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote...Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it." Blake's provocative point is that unconsciously Milton was on the...

...Uses. (As my concern with "Up Rising" remains how it fits, with its operation in the art of the poem). "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote...Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell. ..." As it is I so resist any sympathy with Johnson or Humphrey, touching upon what I sympathetically...

...'The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of angels and God, and at liberty when of devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it,' indicates why Slavery Rhymes fails as art. The trouble is that the poet seems so remarkably unexcited...

...found Satan the hero of Paradise Lost, not because he wins, as Dryden thought, but just because: "Note: The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of...true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it."17 Blake believed he knew Milton's mind because Milton had appeared to him many times in visions....

...as the real hero of the poem. Blake put the case most strikingly in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote...true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it." Shelley spells out more plainly what he likes about Satan in the preface to Prometheus Unbound...