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-Clarendon Press, 1999-. Second impression. x+323 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. 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…
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Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry Hardcover - 1999
by Morton D. Paley
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- Title Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry
- Author Morton D. Paley
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher OUP Oxford, Oxford
- Date 1999-12-09
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780198185000 / 0198185006
- Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.88 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.24 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Romanticism - Great Britain, Apocalyptic literature - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99015283
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.709
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