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"The Devil's Thoughts" is a satirical poem in common metre by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1799, and expanded by Robert Southey in 1827 and retitled "The Devil's Walk". The narrative describes the Devil going walking and enjoying the sight of the various sins of mankind.
The poem consisted of seven irregular ballad stanzas of 49 lines. [2] The poem was a satirical attack and criticism of the British government. Satan is depicted meeting with key members of the British government. [2] The poem was modelled on and meant as a continuation of "The Devil's Thoughts" of 1799 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert ...
The poem was written in a Habbie stanza with the stanza six lines long and the rhyme scheme AAABAB. Burns used a similar stanza in Death and Doctor Hornbook. The poem is also skeptical of the Devil's existence and of his intentions to punish sinners for all eternity as in the stanza. Hear me, auld Hangie, for a wee, An’ let poor damned bodies be;
Harald Bergstedt, ca. 1910. Harald Bergstedt (Harald Alfred Petersen; 10 August 1877, in Køge – 19 September 1965, in Copenhagen) was a Danish writer, novelist, playwright and a poet.
Blake emphasized the rebellious, satanic elements of the epic; the repressive character Urizen in the Four Zoas is a tyrannical version of Milton's God. In addition to his famous quip in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell about Milton belonging to the devil's party, Blake wrote Milton: a Poem which has Milton, like Satan, rejecting a life in Heaven.
Les Litanies de Satan" ("The Litanies of Satan") is a poem by Charles Baudelaire, published as part of Les Fleurs du mal. The date of composition is unknown, but there is no evidence that it was composed at a different time to the other poems of the volume. [1] The poem is a renunciation of religion, and Catholicism in particular. [2]
Their previous album, Sad Wings of Destiny, caught the attention of CBS Records, and with the help of new manager David Hemmings, the band signed with CBS and received a £60,000 budget for the follow-up album, [5] which was to draw its title phrase "sin after sin" from the lyrics to the song "Genocide" from the Sad Wings album. [6]
They Flew Alone (released in the US as Wings and the Woman with 8 minutes cut out) [1] is a 1942 British biopic about aviator Amy Johnson directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Robert Newton and Edward Chapman. [2] [3] It was distributed in the UK and the US by RKO Radio Pictures.