Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 October 1999
- ISBN 9780198185000
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages334 pages
- Size 224x145x22 mm
- Weight 523 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 illustrations 0
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Short description:
The interrelationship of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern in British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history in which apocalypse is followed by millennium, but 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. Is history developing towards end time and millennium, or is it cyclical and purposeless? The fear that millennium may not ensue on apocalypse emerges as a major, if often repressed, theme in the great works of the period.
MoreLong description:
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.
Scholarly ... Paley deftly illustrates how various poetic narratives of apocalypse and millennium fail to unite the two moments and are thus devoid of closure ... the study reveals a near-comprehensive grasp of the religious, literary and political manifestations of the millennial in the period.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Blake
Coleridge
Wordsworth
Byron
Shelley
Keats
Bibliography
Index
