"Fairly perhaps sees a bird flying over the fens, and he looks attentively at a young woman, and he combines the two of them, and imagines an angel. The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald Fred Fairly is a scientist, an academic at St Angelicus ("Angel's") College, who can't help thinking of angels. This human angel ("more spiritual than animal") wants a "pure" woman and is too high-minded to be able to understand Tess's corporeal nature. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy "I don't believe in anything supernatural," says Tess, but she gets an angel for a suitor. "Soon my Angel came again: / I was arm'd, he came in vain / For the time of youth was fled, / And grey hairs were on my head." The poet resentfully arms himself against his angel's kindness.
"The Angel" by William Blake The poet dreams of hiding his "heart's delight" from his guardian angel, who flees from him. Adam asks the visiting angel Raphael whether angels have sex, "To whom the Angel, with a smile that glowed / Celestial rosy red, Love's proper hue, / Answered, 'Let it suffice thee that thou knowest / Us happy, and without love no happiness'." Yes they do. Paradise Lost by John Milton Milton's angels don't just fly around doing good (or ill), they eat, drink (fruit juice only) and chat. Finally the Good Angel exits and the Evil Angel gleefully invites Faustus to the "vast perpetual torture-house" that is hell.
But the Evil Angel's counsel – "Go forward Faustus in the famous art" – is more welcome. "O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside, / And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul," says the Good Angel. Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Good and Evil Angels appear in the play as a double act.
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