Angels of Punishment and the Sword of God: Symbols of Justice or Tyranny? by Emily Paterson-Morgan

“…The poets Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Thomas Love Peacock, along with the artist J.M.W. Turner, take the sacred images of the Sword of God and the avenging angel, literal representations of the Glory of God, and reinterpret them in a sacrilegious manner.…”
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