...that the early questions of Dryden begin to resurface. Blake's famous (or infamous) take on Milton ("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") is followed by Shelley's almost equally famous assertion (in his...

...sections are the best parts, not unlike the Satan sections of Milton's Paradise Lost. (Blake claimed that "Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it" [Heaven and Hell, pl. 5].)...

...Reason is call'd Messiah. (. . .] Note. The reason Milton wrote in fetters' when he wrote of Angels 8i God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it. Prom Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lectures 1808-19 On Literature, ed....

...in Frye's course, partly, if not largely, because I was familiar with Blake's Romantic notion that 'Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell ... because he was a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it' (MHH 6). In my MA thesis...

...de libertad afirmando que, sin darse cuenta, el propio Milton se identificaba con el ángel rebelde: "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of the Devils & Hell, is because he was a truc Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it" (Blake...

...metaphysical poets Donne and Herbert; Romantics Coleridge, Byron, and Keats; Ruskin and Christina Rossetti. 3. "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at libO erty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing...

...harmonious union of reason and inspiration, in which reason no longer dominates. In this work he remarks: "The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote...true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it." Jews and Judaism, but made no special effort to inflame others. If the notion of the "demonic...

...'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.' This is not to say that if you have lots of energy, you are bound to be wicked. Your energies...

...Materials. ANSI Z39. 48-1992. 987654321 To my brother Richard, and in memory of our brother, Ron . . . he was a true Poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it. —William Blake Acknowledgments xi The Rope Was Innocent 1 I. The Infant King 5 I Knew the Rudiments...

...have. Plot may be an index of error, but it is also the source of interest. William Blake asserted that "the reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote...true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it" (Blake, 58). A moment's reflection might suggest a rather different reason that Milton made Satan...