Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry

Name: Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry
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ISBN: 9780199262175

ISBN-10: 0199262179

ISBN-13: 9780199262175

Edition: 2003

Authors: Morton D. Paley

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The interrelationship of the ideas of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern of British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history in which apocalypse is followed by millennium, but in their various ways the major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley - question and even at times undermine the possibility of a successful secularization of this model. No matter how confidently the sequence of apocalypse and millennium seems to be affirmed in some of the major works of the period, the issue is always in doubt: the fear that millennium may not ensue emerges as a significant, if often repressed, theme in the great works of the…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction


Blake


Coleridge


Wordsworth


Byron


Shelley


Keats


Bibliography


Index