...high feeling, a celebrant of love, an enemy of tyrants, a seer. Shelley in turn had said of Milton, "The sacred Milton was, let it ever be remembered, a Republican, and a bold enquirer into morals and religion."10 An extreme prude, Harriet was perhaps less bold in her inquiries,...

...make the political issue clear in a brief reference to Milton in his preface to Prometheus Unbound: "the sacred Milton was, let it ever be remembered, a Republican, and a bold enquirer into morals and religion" (Poetry and Prose, p. 134). Wherever one senses the presence of...

...produce philosophers and poets equal to those who (if we except Shakespeare) have never been surpassed. We owe the great writers of the golden age of our...let it ever be remembered, a republican, and a bold enquirer into morals and religion. The great writers of our own age are, we have reason to suppose,...

...Shelley invokes the critical "spirit" that gives rise to social revolutions and great literature alike: "We owe the great writers of the golden age of our...to the progress and development of the same spirit" (Poetry and Prose, 134). 3 It is such a reckoning of historical "debts" that results in Shelley's celebrated...

...in Critical Essays on Keats, ed. Hermione de Almeida (Boston: GK Hall, 1990). "A sect of dissenters" We owe the great writers of the golden age of our...let it ever be remembered, a Republican, and a bold enquirer into morals and religion. The great writers of our own age are, we have reason to suppose,...

...sublimist parts are the revelations of Milton's own mind' (245). Shelley goes further and contends that 'Milton was, let it ever be remembered. a republican, and a bold inquirer into morals and religion' (Wittreich 1970: 532). This is from Shelley's 'Preface to Prometheus Vnbound' (1819) in which he also...

...Politics in English Literature 1789-1824 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 13-42. We owe the great writers of the golden age of our...let it ever be remembered, a Republican, and a bold enquirer into morals and religion. The great writers of our own age are, we have reason to suppose,...

...organized religion consists of "large codes of fraud and woe." The debunking of religion is therefore good: We owe the great writers of the golden age of our...and most oppressive form of the Christian religion. The true source of religion is not revelation from God but inspiration in the poet. If religion is...