Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic PoetryClarendon Press, 07.10.1999 - 334 Seiten 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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... dream to Nebuchadnezzar . As the king of kings , ' Thou art this head of gold , ' he tells him , and continues : And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee , and another third kingdom of brass , which shall bear rule ...
... dream to Nebuchadnezzar . As the king of kings , ' Thou art this head of gold , ' he tells him , and continues : And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee , and another third kingdom of brass , which shall bear rule ...
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... dream is certain , and the interpretation thereof sure . ( 44-5 ) Daniel 7 concerns the prophet's vision of four beasts representing suc- cessive kingdoms , the Ancient of Days enthroned , and one who , ' like the Son of man ' , comes ...
... dream is certain , and the interpretation thereof sure . ( 44-5 ) Daniel 7 concerns the prophet's vision of four beasts representing suc- cessive kingdoms , the Ancient of Days enthroned , and one who , ' like the Son of man ' , comes ...
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... dream dreams , your young men shall see visions . . . . And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth , blood , and fire , and pillars of smoke . The sun shall be turned into darkness , and the moon into blood , before the ...
... dream dreams , your young men shall see visions . . . . And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth , blood , and fire , and pillars of smoke . The sun shall be turned into darkness , and the moon into blood , before the ...
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... , Respectable Folly : Millenarianism and the French Revolution in France and England ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1975 ) , p . 110 . December 1794 , he remembered a dream in which he 26 INTRODUCTION.
... , Respectable Folly : Millenarianism and the French Revolution in France and England ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1975 ) , p . 110 . December 1794 , he remembered a dream in which he 26 INTRODUCTION.
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.