Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic PoetryClarendon Press, 1999 M10 7 - 334 pages 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 period. Related to it is the tension in Romantic poetry between conflicting models of history itself: history as teleology, developing towards end time and millennium, and history as purposeless cycle. This subject-matter is traced through a selection of works by the major poets, partly through an exposition of their underlying intellectual traditions, and partly through a close examination of the poems themselves. |
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... William Blake ( 2 vols . , London and New Haven : Yale University Press , 1981 ) S. T. Coleridge , Biographia Literaria ( CC 7 ) , ed . James Engell and W. Jackson Bate ( 2 vols . , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1983 ) The ...
... William Blake ( 2 vols . , London and New Haven : Yale University Press , 1981 ) S. T. Coleridge , Biographia Literaria ( CC 7 ) , ed . James Engell and W. Jackson Bate ( 2 vols . , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1983 ) The ...
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... William Blake made this the central concern of the prophetic poems he wrote in the 1790s , and , after he recognized that this sequence could not be realized through the energy embodied in his revolutionary hero Ore , he estab- lished ...
... William Blake made this the central concern of the prophetic poems he wrote in the 1790s , and , after he recognized that this sequence could not be realized through the energy embodied in his revolutionary hero Ore , he estab- lished ...
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... William Blake and Popular Religious Imagery ' , Burlington Magazine , 128 ( 1986 ) : 717 and fig . 13 ; Jon Mee , Dangerous Enthusiasm : William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1992 ) , pp ...
... William Blake and Popular Religious Imagery ' , Burlington Magazine , 128 ( 1986 ) : 717 and fig . 13 ; Jon Mee , Dangerous Enthusiasm : William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1992 ) , pp ...
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... William Blake , with Joachite thought through the intermediacy of seventeenth - century antinomian sects such as the ... Blake's characteristic statements and the beliefs of these sects , including belief in the immediate availability of ...
... William Blake , with Joachite thought through the intermediacy of seventeenth - century antinomian sects such as the ... Blake's characteristic statements and the beliefs of these sects , including belief in the immediate availability of ...
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... Blake's cosmogony ; Coleridge thought of translating Burnet's Latin original ... Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime ( Princeton : Princeton University Press ... William Wordsworth , ed . E. de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire ( 5 vols ...
... Blake's cosmogony ; Coleridge thought of translating Burnet's Latin original ... Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime ( Princeton : Princeton University Press ... William Wordsworth , ed . E. de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire ( 5 vols ...
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