Research Catalog

Title

Lyric apocalypse : Milton, Marvell, and the nature of events / Ryan Netzley.

Author

Netzley, Ryan, 1972-

Publication

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

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Details

Description

x, 269 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--

Series Statement

Verbal arts : studies in poetics

Uniform Title

Verbal arts--studies in poetics.

Subjects

• Revelation in literature
• Change in literature
• Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism
• Milton, John, 1608-1674 > Criticism and interpretation
• Apocalypse in literature
• English poetry > 17th century > History and criticism
• Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Lyric Apocalypses, Transformative Time, and the Possibility of Endings -- 1. Apocalyptic Means: Allegiance, Force, and Events in Marvell's Cromwell Trilogy and Royalist Elegies -- 2. Hope in the Present: Paratactic Apocalypses and Contemplative Events in Milton's Sonnets -- 3. What Happens in Lycidas Apocalypse, Possibility, and Events in Milton's Pastoral Elegy -- 4. How Poems End: Apocalypse, Symbol, and the Event of Ending in "Upon Appleton House" -- Conclusion. Revelation: Learning Freedom and the End of Crisis.

Call Number

JFE 15-1382

ISBN

• 0823263479 (hardback)
• 9780823263479 (hardback)

LCCN

2014029450

OCLC

879244389

Author

Netzley, Ryan, 1972- author.

Title

Lyric apocalypse : Milton, Marvell, and the nature of events / Ryan Netzley.

Publisher

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Verbal arts : studies in poetics

Verbal arts--studies in poetics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-1382