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missing some works citedTintern Abbey Millennialism and revealing Thought in S. T. Coleridge and William Wordsworths PoeticsStorming of the Bastille 1789 1During and in the aftermath of the French Revolution, millennialist suasion independent of the myriad of scotch and historical reasons for its precipitation influenced many authors. Many peck perceived the French Revolution as a foreshadowing of an Apocalypse that would usher in a new millenarian epoch, virtuoso levelling social distinctions between people and bringing about what was believed to be Christs absolute rule. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was much(prenominal) a author influenced by millennialist and apocalyptic impression 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 common experiment on the Susquehanna River in the United States, mark his belief in a millennium that would eliminate the social evils that he saw a s 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 entirely understood, but as Hillel Schwartz notes, its fall term, millennium, refers to a first-century eastern Mediterranean text, the Apocalypse of John or platter of Revelation. 2 Schwartz further notes that Among the world 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 Romanticism An Anthology, with CD-ROM, 2nd ed. Oxford & Malden, MA Blackwell, 2000.BACK 11. Earl Leslie Griggs, Ed. Collected earn of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1956, 395, 397.BACK 12. Duncan Wu and David Miall, e ds. 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 prescript (1798), 9-11.BACK 16. Coleridge, quoted in Peterfreund, Stuart. Coleridge and the Politics of Critical 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/