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

missing some works citedTintern Abbey Millennialism and Apocalypse Thought in S. T. Coleridge and William Wordsworths PoeticsStorming of the Bastille 1789 1During and in the aftermath of the cut Revolution, millennialist thought independent of the myriad of economic and historical reasons for its precipitation influenced many authors. Many people perceived the French Revolution as a auspicate of an Apocalypse that would usher in a new millenarian epoch, one levelling social distinctions between people and bringing about what was believed to be Christs absolute rule. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was much(prenominal) 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 United States, mark his belief in a millennium that would eliminate the social evils 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, like a shot pervasive. Its origins are not entirely 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 gentlemans gentleman religions we can locate 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 love affair An Anthology, with CD-ROM, 2nd 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. Ibid, 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 vital 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/