Jan 3, 2010

Milton | Milton

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Author: William Blake
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry, Epic, Narrative poetry
Subjects: Religion, Poetry or poets, God, Seventeenth century, Women, Divorce, Death or dying, Martyrs or martyrdom, Birds, Devils or demons, Satan or Satanism, Angels, Baptism

Critical Evaluation:

William Blake composed this brief epic poem to explain Christianity to a troubled England. Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton before him had written on that theme, but Blake created a far more personal and highly original myth. As he saw it, England’s Christianity had traded supernatural spirituality for scientific rationality. Blake thought scientific rationality, or what he called natural religion, would lead to commercial imperialism, dehumanizing mechanization of work, and worldwide wars. One may say that he was right. He blamed...

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