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20504220 No.20504220 [Reply] [Original]

Does religion and dogma restrict the poetic imagination? Balzac, Melville, and Blake all thought so. Coleridge's creative decline is usually attributed to his increased activity in the Unitarian Church as well.

>> No.20504240

Blake? The most religious poet you say?

>> No.20504265

>>20504220
yes, the famously poetically restricted Paradife Loft

>> No.20504269

>>20504240
Not OP, but you're wrong. Blake was far from a dogmatic or pious Christian, even if he incorporate a lot of Christian themes in his poetry, like many other poets and writers do. He was a Swedenborgian for a long time, and that's more like a crypto Christian esoteric cult

>> No.20504280

>>20504265
Come on now. Paradise Lost doesn't justify God's ways to man, it justifies Milton's ways. Dante was Dantean. Milton was Miltonic.

>> No.20504335

>>20504265
You say this as if Milton was not idiosyncratic as hell.

>> No.20504448

>>20504269
So you admit that he was religious ?

>> No.20504470
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20504470

>>20504335
>>20504280
>>20504269
>RELIGION THROTTLES CREATIVITY AAAAAAAH!!!!
>urm being idiosyncratic makes you urm not religious actually urm so all these deeply religious poets don't count urm

>> No.20504519

>>20504470
You can be religious and idiosyncratic. Heretics write the best poetry desu

>> No.20504578

>>20504220
>Does religion and dogma restrict the poetic imagination?
No