... and the French and American revolutions what he also expressed in the poetical works The French Revolution and America. Blake's works are deeply influenced by Shakespeare, Milton and the Bible. He created his own mysticism which changed all through his life and is therefore difficult to understand. His own view of Christianity is reflected ... . In Matthew 17:2, the story of transfiguration the text says: "His face shone like the sum, and his clothes became as white as the light". Another time, after the resurrection His description goes like: "His appearance was like lightning, and his c...

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... and rather imperfectly, in a non-chivalric manner, accepts the return blow of the Green Knight. Beowulf is a Germanic epic poem that was first written some time before the beginning of the second millennia A.D. Scholars have yet to prove either who originated the tale of Beowulf or who first wrote it down, so ... waging his lonely war" because he is not with God. The worst part of evil is that one is alone and without the joy of God. As John Milton says in the beginning of his work, Paradise Lost, in describing the devil; " for now he thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain in ut...

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