By Ryan Netzley
ISBN-10: 0823263479
ISBN-13: 9780823263479
John Milton’s and Andrew Marvell’s lyrics try and render the event of such an apocalyptic switch within the current. during this admire they take heavily the Reformation’s insistence that eschatology is a ancient phenomenon. but those poets also are reacting to the Regicide, and, for this reason, their works discover very smooth questions on the character of occasions, what it capacity for an important historic social gathering to happen.
Lyric Apocalypse argues that Milton’s and Marvell’s lyrics problem any retrospective figuring out of occasions, together with one equipped on a idea of revolution. as a substitute, those poems express that there's no “after” to the apocalypse, that if we will speak about swap, we must always accomplish that within the current, while there's nonetheless time to deal with it. For either one of those poets, lyric turns into how to think an apocalyptic occasion that may be either hopeful and new.
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