Author awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, 2002
Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry
Morton D. Paley
Price: £91.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818500-0
Publication date: 7 October 1999
336 pages, 2 illus., 216x138 mm
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| - '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.' - Years Work in English Studies
- 'His close reading elucidates echoes of and allusions to biblical sources which saturate the poems. Paley is also concerned with the ways in which the unstable linkages between apocalypse, millennium and contemporary history provided conceptual structures for the imagination. Some of these are startingly appropriate to our own time.' - Nicholas Roe, Times Literary Supplement
- 'Paley reveals for the first time and in impressive detail the extraordinary diversity and millenarianism in English Romantic poetry.' - Nicholas Roe, Times Literary Supplement
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| Description | | - An important study of major works by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley
- Illuminates their central preoccupation with the model of history supplied by the Book of Revelation - apocalypse followed by millennium - and their conflicting answers to the question: where is history going?
- Written by an eminent Romantics scholar
| | 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. |
Readership: Scholars and students of Romantic poetry.
| Contents |
Introduction
Blake
Coleridge
Wordsworth
Byron
Shelley
Keats
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Morton D. Paley, Professor in the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley
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