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Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry

Paley, Morton D.
Innbundet / 1999 / Engelsk

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9780198185000
Publisert
1999
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
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523 gr
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224 mm
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145 mm
Dybde
22 mm
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P, 06
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334

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Paley, Morton D.

Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry

Paley, Morton D.
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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

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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The interrelationship of the ideas of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern of British Romanticism. This subject-matter is traced through a selection of works by the major poets, through an exposition of their underlying intellectual traditions, and an examination of the poems themselves.
Les mer
Introduction ; Blake ; Coleridge ; Wordsworth ; Byron ; Shelley ; Keats ; Bibliography ; Index
`there is much that is familiar in these analyses, yet much that is new, subtle, and unsettling. It provides an admirable example of what careful scholarship, untainted by tendentious purposes, can unveil both in the poems and in previous schemes of their interpretation ... Paley ... has encyclopedic knowledge of the particulars of literary and political history; and he has the imagination to arrange them in revealing patterns. Anyone interested in the historical location of these works, in their responsiveness to and echos of the discourses of their day, and in their answerability must mine this book.' Paul Magnuson `impressive mastery of recent research. ... The overall process indicated in Professor Paley's study, by which the imagery of Revelation dissolved over a few years from an organized biblical pattern for the understanding of current events to a range of images for less coherent subsequent interpretations emerges as a fascinating phenomenon, for which he has provided the first - and definitive - guide.' John Beer, March 2001 `Paley writes in a clear jargon-free style.' Choice May 2000
Les mer
Author awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, 2002
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
Les mer
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
Les mer

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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

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.
Les mer
The interrelationship of the ideas of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern of British Romanticism. This subject-matter is traced through a selection of works by the major poets, through an exposition of their underlying intellectual traditions, and an examination of the poems themselves.
Les mer
Introduction ; Blake ; Coleridge ; Wordsworth ; Byron ; Shelley ; Keats ; Bibliography ; Index
`there is much that is familiar in these analyses, yet much that is new, subtle, and unsettling. It provides an admirable example of what careful scholarship, untainted by tendentious purposes, can unveil both in the poems and in previous schemes of their interpretation ... Paley ... has encyclopedic knowledge of the particulars of literary and political history; and he has the imagination to arrange them in revealing patterns. Anyone interested in the historical location of these works, in their responsiveness to and echos of the discourses of their day, and in their answerability must mine this book.' Paul Magnuson `impressive mastery of recent research. ... The overall process indicated in Professor Paley's study, by which the imagery of Revelation dissolved over a few years from an organized biblical pattern for the understanding of current events to a range of images for less coherent subsequent interpretations emerges as a fascinating phenomenon, for which he has provided the first - and definitive - guide.' John Beer, March 2001 `Paley writes in a clear jargon-free style.' Choice May 2000
Les mer
Author awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, 2002
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
Les mer
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
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198185000
Publisert
1999
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
523 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
334

Forfatter
Paley, Morton D.

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