TY  - BOOK
AU  - Netzley,Ryan
TI  - Lyric Apocalypse: Milton, Marvell, and the Nature of Events 
T2  - Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
SN  - 9780823263479
U1  - 821/.4 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Apocalypse in literature
KW  - English poetry
KW  - 17th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Renaissance Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Apocalypse
KW  - Immanence
KW  - Marvel
KW  - Milton
KW  - Possibility
KW  - Revelation
KW  - event
KW  - lyric
KW  - poetics
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Apocalyptic Means --; 2. Hope in the Present --; 3. What Happens in Lycidas? --; 4. How Poems End --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - What's new about the apocalypse? Revelation does not allow us to look back after the end and enumerate pivotal turning points. It happens in an immediate encounter with the transformatively new.John Milton's and Andrew Marvell's lyrics attempt to render the experience of such an apocalyptic change in the present. In this respect they take seriously the Reformation's insistence that eschatology is a historical phenomenon. Yet these poets are also reacting to the Regicide, and, as a result, their works explore very modern questions about the nature of events, what it means for a significant historical occasion to happen.Lyric Apocalypse argues that Milton's and Marvell's lyrics challenge any retrospective understanding of events, including one built on a theory of revolution. Instead, these poems show that there is no "after" to the apocalypse, that if we are going to talk about change, we should do so in the present, when there is still time to do something about it. For both of these poets, lyric becomes a way to imagine an apocalyptic event that would be both hopeful and new
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