Michael:
> > Is the Rebel Angels title in the (formalist) context anything to do
> > with the
> > Robertson Davis novel (which I'd highly recommend) of the same name?
> >
> > Baffled from Britain.
> >
> It's taken from something Keats said about Paradise Lost : "I feel
> confident I should have been a Rebel Angel had the opportunity been
> mine."
Thanks. Looks as if the NeoFormalists and Davis independently draw on
Keats.
There +is+ a slightly freaky Gnostic spin on the phrase (that Davis partly
draws on in his novel) that perhaps I'd better not go into ...
Robin
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