Produktdetails
Titel: Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry
Autor/en: Morton D. Paley
ISBN: 0199262179
EAN: 9780199262175
Paperback.
Sprache: Englisch.
OUP Oxford
20. März 2003 - kartoniert - 334 Seiten
Beschreibung
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?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Blake; 2. Coleridge; 3. Wordsworth; 4. Byron; 5. Shelley; 6. Keats; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index
Portrait
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).
Pressestimmen
"This book excels by its sound scholarship, lucid style, and exact argumentation."--Religion and the Arts
"The overall process indicated in professor Paley's study, by which the imaginary of Revelation dissolved over a few years from an organized biblical pattern of 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."--Notes and Queries
"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 schlarship, 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 imagination to arrange them in revealing patterns. Anyone interested in the historical location of these works, in their responsiven
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