Editing His Dark Materials (section)

==Influences==
Pullman has identified three major literary influences on ''His Dark Materials'': the essay ''On the Marionette Theatre'' by [[Heinrich von Kleist]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Parry |first=Idris |title=Online Traduction |publisher=Southern Cross Review |url=http://www.southerncrossreview.org/9/kleist.htm |access-date=6 May 2012 }}</ref> the works of [[William Blake]], and, most important, [[John Milton]]'s ''[[Paradise Lost]]'', from which the trilogy derives its title.<ref>{{cite web |last=Fried |first=Kerry |title=Darkness Visible: An Interview with Philip Pullman |publisher=Amazon.com |url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_2079432_11/002-7083137-2301611?ie=UTF8&docId=94589&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0QW4GD8JBKQXMTFSBZT2&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=196508801&pf_rd_i=9459 |access-date=13 April 2007 }}</ref> In his introduction, he adapts a famous description of Milton by Blake to quip that he (Pullman) "is of the Devil's party and ''does'' know it".

Critics have compared the trilogy with [[C. S. Lewis]]'s ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'', which Pullman despises,<ref>{{cite news |first=John|last=Ezard|title= Narnia books attacked as racist and sexist|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,3604,726739,00.html|work=The Guardian |location=UK|date= 3 June 2002|access-date=4 April 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20071204/282935265985927 | work=The Star | location=Toronto | title=Writing the book on intolerance | first=Mark | last=Abley | date=4 December 2007 | access-date=4 May 2010}}</ref> and also with such fantasy books as ''[[Bridge to Terabithia (novel)|Bridge to Terabithia]]'' by [[Katherine Paterson]] and ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'' by [[Madeleine L'Engle]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Crosby |first=Vanessa|title=Innocence and Experience: The Subversion of the Child Hero Archetype in Philip Pullman's Speculative Soteriology |publisher=University of Sydney |url=http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/1250/1/CrosbyF.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/1250/1/CrosbyF.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=12 April 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Laura |title=Far From Narnia: Philip Pullman's secular fantasy for children |magazine=The New Yorker |date=26 December 2005 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/12/26/051226fa_fact |access-date=12 April 2007 }}</ref>