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Article: The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
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- January 1, 2000
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The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature,
1789-1824. By Robert M. Ryan. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997.
ix +292 pp. [pound]35; $59.95.
The plate from Blake's Milton on the cover of Ryan's book dramatically captures the strategies of 'the Romantic religious enterprise': Milton advances towards his God Urizen in 'a struggle which is almost an embrace, an assault that is an effort to support and rejuvenate the tottering victim who must be revived' (p. 34). Emphasizing that scant attention has been paid to the Romantics' intervention in the religious discourses of an ...