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Informationen zum Autor Ryan Netzley is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Klappentext How can one experience the apocalypse in the present? Lyric Apocalypse argues that John Milton's and Andrew Marvell's lyrics depict revelation as an immediately perceptible event. In so doing, their lyrics explore the nature of events, the modern question of what it means for something to happen in the present. Zusammenfassung How can one experience the apocalypse in the present? Lyric Apocalypse argues that John Milton’s and Andrew Marvell’s lyrics depict revelation as an immediately perceptible event. In so doing, their lyrics explore the nature of events, the modern question of what it means for something to happen in the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 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 Notes Bibliography Index
