Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic PoetryClarendon Press, 1999 M10 7 - 334 páginas 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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... early as St Jerome that there was more than one authorial hand in the Book of Isaiah and that chapters 24-7 had been written by someone other than the author of at least parts of the rest . By the later eighteenth century , the textual ...
... early as St Jerome that there was more than one authorial hand in the Book of Isaiah and that chapters 24-7 had been written by someone other than the author of at least parts of the rest . By the later eighteenth century , the textual ...
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... early Chris- tian communities , and the knowledge that this was so is also an import- ant factor in shaping the ideas of poets who came long afterwards . For the first two centuries of Christianity , there prevailed a literal belief in ...
... early Chris- tian communities , and the knowledge that this was so is also an import- ant factor in shaping the ideas of poets who came long afterwards . For the first two centuries of Christianity , there prevailed a literal belief in ...
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... early Christians , Gibbon wrote : The ancient and popular doctrine of the Millennium was intimately con- nected with the second coming of Christ . As the works of the creation had been finished in six days , their duration in their ...
... early Christians , Gibbon wrote : The ancient and popular doctrine of the Millennium was intimately con- nected with the second coming of Christ . As the works of the creation had been finished in six days , their duration in their ...
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... early nineteenth centuries . 26 Some scholars have tried to link the Romantic period , and especially William Blake , with Joachite thought through the intermediacy of seventeenth - century antinomian sects such as the Familists , the ...
... early nineteenth centuries . 26 Some scholars have tried to link the Romantic period , and especially William Blake , with Joachite thought through the intermediacy of seventeenth - century antinomian sects such as the Familists , the ...
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... early Christians , in the later eighteenth century a preoccupation with the subject of apocalypse and millennium was to be found not only in visionary texts but also among groups of believers who had as their goal the regeneration of ...
... early Christians , in the later eighteenth century a preoccupation with the subject of apocalypse and millennium was to be found not only in visionary texts but also among groups of believers who had as their goal the regeneration of ...
Contenido
BLAKE | 32 |
COLERIDGE | 91 |
WORDSWORTH | 154 |
BYRON | 193 |
SHELLEY | 220 |
KEATS | 276 |
EPILOGUE | 289 |
Index | 311 |
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Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry Morton D. Paley Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
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Angel apocalypse and millennium apocalyptic appears beginning Book British Burke Byron Cain Cambridge Church Clarendon Press Coleridge Coleridge's Continental Prophecies Darkness Death Demogorgon dream earth England English Essay Eternal Europe Famine figure followed France French Revolution Heaven Hell human Hyperion Ibid imagery imagination Jerusalem Joan of Arc John Keats Keats's kingdom kings Last later Letters Liberty lines London Lord Mary Shelley Mask of Anarchy millenarian millennial Milton nature Orc's Paradise Lost parallel passage Percy Bysshe Shelley plate poem poet poet's Poetical Poetry political Prelude Preternatural Agency Princeton University Press Prometheus Unbound prophetic Prose published radical Reiman Religious Musings Revelation Richard Robert Robert Southey Romantic Samuel Taylor Coleridge sense serpent Shelley Shelley's Sibylline Leaves Southey Spirit stanza sublime Swedenborg Swedenborgians theme Thomas Thomas Paine thou tion vision vols Wesley William Blake William Wordsworth Woodring Wordsworth wrote York
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Página 244 - And it came to pass, at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
Página 48 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Página 155 - But huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.
Página 32 - And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, And the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: And all their host shall fall down, As the leaf falleth off from the vine, And as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Página 95 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Página 138 - For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Página 6 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: For, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Página 8 - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.