Paul Youngquist (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "Criticism and the Experience of Blake's Milton" in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 30, No. 4, Autumn, 1990, pp. 555-71.
[Youngquist is an American educator and the author of Madness and Blake's Myth. In the following psychoanalytic interpretation of Milton, he asserts that the poem is about "the ordeal of experiencing and mastering a pathological distortion of consciousness."]
I cannot deny that there is truth in prophecies.
—Herodotus
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Source: Poetry Criticism, ©1995 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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