The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and BlakeWhat is the creator of the world were evil? What if Christ, the Son, were the antagonist rather than the ally of the Father? Nuttall tracks this subversive theology from the Gnostics of the second century, through its flickering reappearance in Marlowe and Milton, to its full development in Blake. |
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Page 56
... poet freely ranging in the zodiac of his wit . He almost begins to think of the poet as a better maker than God . This world , after all , is brazen ; ' the poets only deliver a golden'.82 Of course Sidney is more modest ( to put it ...
... poet freely ranging in the zodiac of his wit . He almost begins to think of the poet as a better maker than God . This world , after all , is brazen ; ' the poets only deliver a golden'.82 Of course Sidney is more modest ( to put it ...
Page 113
... poetic register leaps when Satan speaks as he does here . Milton the poet must put forth all his strength . Milton's friend Marvell also wrote a poem about a garden . This lyrical , witty meditation on innocence and sexuality gradu ...
... poetic register leaps when Satan speaks as he does here . Milton the poet must put forth all his strength . Milton's friend Marvell also wrote a poem about a garden . This lyrical , witty meditation on innocence and sexuality gradu ...
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... poetic myths were first inserted in men's minds by evil spirits . Moreover , as we saw earlier , the anonymous author of the Panegyrico por la poesia ( 1627 ) affirmed that Satan was a poet.53 The exchange ends with Eve's words , ' Lead ...
... poetic myths were first inserted in men's minds by evil spirits . Moreover , as we saw earlier , the anonymous author of the Panegyrico por la poesia ( 1627 ) affirmed that Satan was a poet.53 The exchange ends with Eve's words , ' Lead ...
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