William Golding’s Apocalyptic Vision in Lord of the Flies and Pincher Martin
Humanity has long been haunted by the notions of Armageddon and the coming of a Golden Age. While the English Romantic poets like Shelley saw hopes of a new millennium in poems like “Queen Mab” and “The Revolt of Islam”, others like Blake developed their own unique “cosmology” in their longer poems...
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2017-07-01
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| Series: | Prague Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2017-0003 |