...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 literature to that fervid awakening of the public miud which shook to dust the oldest and most oppressive form of the Christian religion. We owe Milton...

...Subjectt, by JA Froude, vol. iii. p. 60. 2 Idem, vol. iii. p. 129. Promoting Intellectual Deterioration " We owe the great writers of the golden age of our...and most oppressive form of the Christian religion. " — SHELLEY. Preface, to Prometheus Unbound. THE Roman Catholic Church is weakening and deteriorating...

...fiction with a religious feeling it engenders something worse.' Later in the same preface he urges that ' the sacred Milton was, let it ever be remembered, a republican, and a bold enquirer into morals and religion.' The claim that Milton alleges ' no superiority in moral virtue...

..."courage, and majesty, and firm and patient opposition to omnipotent force," reminded his readers that "the sacred Milton was, let it ever be remembered,...republican and a bold inquirer into morals and religion." 6 It will be observed that Shelley here connects Milton not only with political but with religious...

...creed in all history ; uglier 1 Of the port of the English commonwealth Shelley has elsewhere said, ' The sacred Milton was, let it ever be remembered,...republican, and a bold inquirer into morals and religion ' ; a passage which may serve as comment on this of the ' Adonais.' On the other hand, Shelley in the...

...which is certainly correct. ' The sacred Milton ', said Shelley in the preface to Prometheus Unbound, ' was, let it ever be remembered, a republican, and a bold inquirer into morals and religion.' This aspect continues to interest researchers on the Continent and in America. Professor Denis Saurat...

...of relative calm. Shelley expressed well the writer's role in an introduction to Prometheus Unbound: 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,...

...mankind. A defence of poetry 1821 Shelley was openly scornful of the 18th century's passive Milton: the sacred Milton was, let it ever be remembered,...republican, and a bold inquirer into morals and religion. Preface to Prometheus unbound 1820 He saw himself as continuing Milton's enquiries, in re-applying...

...decidedly in favor of those who saw to the roots of their culture and diagnosed its manifold diseases. "[T]he sacred Milton was, let it ever be remembered, a Republican, and a bold enquirer into morals and religion," exclaimed Shelley in the preface to Prometheus Unbound (p. 134)....

...Aeschylus in his own era) and especially in the tradition of the "Republican" Milton, who helped shake "to dust the oldest and most oppressive form of the Christian religion" (NCE, pp. 132 and 134). These predecessors all begin, as Shelley wants to, with established "mythological...