 | Paul Cavill, Heather Ward - 2007 - 514 páginas
...put it most eloquently, as the voice of the Devil in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) claims, '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.' One way of reframing... | |
 | William Blake - 2007 - 392 páginas
...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. * mm « aw *§ MS tb A ' ft* fancy As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the... | |
 | Joseph Lanza - 2007 - 384 páginas
...notorious aphorism about John Milton writing the epic poem Paradise Lost not to justify God's ways but "because he was a true poet and of the devil's party without knowing it." For Blake, God proved a bore full of stilted sermons, whereas the devil — Lucifer, the light-giver... | |
 | Peter Dronke - 2008 - 276 páginas
...(83-308). It is artistically more exciting to depict vice than virtue, as William Blake well noted: The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of...true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.6 It is hardly too much to say that in the Sponsus the Foolish Virgins are not only the protagonists... | |
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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. 
