That Milton was of the Devil's party without knowing it, was said by ?
Correct answer: A. Blake
- A. Blake
- B. Eliot
- C. Johnson
- D. Shelley
Explanation
William Blake described Milton as being ‘of the Devil's party without knowing it’ because Milton's imaginative sympathy appears to lie with Satan, despite the poem's stated Christian framework. The remark occurs in Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
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