Making a Mug of Milton: A Bit of Presumption

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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 of the Devil’s party without knowing it. — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. “Milton,” replied Father Thomas Edmund Gilroy, “though undeniably possessed of poetic genius, had some rather silly ideas.” — Eleanor Bourg Nicholson, Brother Wolf

Making a Mug of Milton: A Bit of Presumption

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