... he wrote political and religious pamphlets fot the cause of puritanism he advocated, and in some of his works he denounces what he considered that was corrupt in the society he was living. What William Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell can state Milton's relation with the character of Satan, ˜Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.' This ... implies that being ˜ of the Devil's party' is favourable, as it is the condition of a "true poet." At the end of the poem Satan returns in triumph to Hell. From my point of view it has ... for God only, fhee...

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