“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils' party without knowing it.”

Note to The Voice of the Devil
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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