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This essay discusses the relationship between apocalypse and millennium in British Romantic poetry. Morton Paley argues that the poets were conflicted about where history was headed, and that this conflict is a central preoccupation in Romantic poetry.
The interrelationship of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern in British Romanticism. In this study, Morton Paley illuminates this central preoccupation and examines Romantic poets' conflicting answers to the question: where is history going?