Constellating Chartist Poetry: Gerald Massey, Walter Benjamin, and the Uses Of Messianism.

The article looks at poets Gerald Massey and Walter Benjamin and compares their style of chartist poetry and the uses of Messianism. The article states that both poets focus on the idea that the past and present are temporal. Also discussed is their idea that a poet's purpose is to create a temporal...

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Published in:	Victorian Poetry Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 369 - 390
Main Author:	Sanders, Michael
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press Winter2007
Subjects:	Messianism Time perception Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Massey, Gerald, 1828-1907 Poetry studies 19th century English literature Victorian (Literary period)
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