Lucifer in Starlight (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
George Meredith’s “Lucifer in Starlight” explores a motif introduced in the Christian Old Testament and examines the stymied ambitions of an angel fallen from Heaven who was the embodiment of pride and temptation. Meredith’s poem achieves distinction in approaching the theme from a rationalist, possibly Deist-influenced, point of view.
In the poem, the fallen angel Prince Lucifer rises out of his “dark dominion,” the region beneath the earth to which he had been consigned after his rebellion against Heaven. His flight above the world is marked by his...
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