Abstract

This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the interrelationship between the ideas of apocalypse and millennium in English Romantic poetry. The imminence of an apocalypse that will be succeeded by a millennium is a major topos in English Romantic poetry. This book examines the mention of these topics in the works of several Romantic English poets including William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats.

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