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The god appropriate to the age of Romantic irony is, like Shelley’s Demogorgon, conceived as points of possible illumination flickering about a center of ambivalent darkness:
a mighty Darkness
Filling the seat of power; and rays of gloom
Dart round, as light from the meridian Sun,
Ungazed upon and shapeless, neither limb
Nor form, nor outline; yet we feel it is
A living Spirit.
Prometheus Unbound (II, iv, 2–7)
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McNiece, G. (1992). Philosophical Influences. In: The Knowledge that Endures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21823-3_8
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