Millennialism and Apocalypse Thought in S. T. Coleridge and William Wor

missing some whole kit and boodle citedTintern Abbey Millennialism and disclosure Thought in S. T. Coleridge and William Wordsworths PoeticsStorming of the Bastille 1789 1During and in the aftermath of the French Revolution, millennialist mentation independent of the myriad of economic and historical reasons for its precipitation influenced many authors. many an(prenominal) people perceived the French Revolution as a bode of an Apocalypse that would usher in a new millenarian epoch, sensation levelling kind distinctions between people and bringing about what was believed to be Christs tyrannical rule. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was such a writer influenced by millennialist and apocalyptic belief in the late-eighteenth-century. His early writings and visions, such as in Religious Musings (1794-6), and Pantisocracy (1794), as well as his proposed communal experiment on the Susquehanna River in the coupled States, mark his belief in a millennium that would eliminate the social ev ils that he saw as detrimental to both individuals and the society in which he lived.The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Revelations 6 1-8, detail from Albert Durer 4The belief in millenarian and apocalyptic movements is one that was, and remains, today pervasive. Its origins are not simply understood, but as Hillel Schwartz notes, its root term, millennium, refers to a first-century eastern Mediterranean text, the Apocalypse of John or Book of Revelation. 2 Schwartz further notes that Among the world religions we can take root two constellations of millenarian thought about an epochal pulsing of time, one Zoroastrian-Jewish-Greek-Christian, the other Hindu-Buddist-Taoist-Confucian. 3 Broadly defined, it is The belief that the end of the w... ..., in Romanticism An Anthology, with CD-ROM, second ed. Oxford & Malden, MA Blackwell, 2000.BACK 11. Earl Leslie Griggs, Ed. Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1956, 395, 397.BACK 12. Duncan Wu and David Miall, eds. Romanticism An Anthology, with CD-ROM, 2nd ed. Oxford & Malden, MA Blackwell, 2000. ( 271).BACK 13. ib. 191.BACK 14. Ibid.BACK 15. Wordsworth, There is an active principle (1798), 9-11.BACK 16. Coleridge, quoted in Peterfreund, Stuart. Coleridge and the Politics of fine Vision. Critical Essays on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Ed. Leonard Orr. New York, Toronto Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994, 39.BACK 17. Earl Leslie Griggs, Ed. Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. II. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1956, 1013.BACK 18. http//www.new-harmony.com/