Lyric apocalypse: Milton, Marvell, and the nature of events

Introduction. Lyric Apocalypses, Transformative Time, and the Possibility of Endings

1. Apocalyptic Means: Allegiance, Force, and Events in Marvell's Cromwell Trilogy and Royalist Elegies

2. Hope in the Present: Paratactic Apocalypses and Contemplative Events in Milton's Sonnets

3. What Happens in Lycidas Apocalypse, Possibility, and Events in Milton's Pastoral Elegy

4. How Poems End: Apocalypse, Symbol, and the Event of Ending in "Upon Appleton House"

Conclusion. Revelation: Learning Freedom and the End of Crisis.