Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry

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Clarendon Press, 2003 - 323 pagini
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 question the possibility of a successful secularization of this model. Is history developing towards end time and millennium, or is it cyclical and purposeless?

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Morton D. Paley is a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkely. A leading figure in the Romantics field, his publications include Energy and Imagination (OUP 1970), William Blake (Phaidon 1978), The Continuing City (OUP 1983), The Apocalyptic Sublime (Yale UP 1986), Coleridge's Later Poetry (OUP 1996), and Portraits of Coleridge (OUP 1999).

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