Lyric ApocalypseWhats new about the apocalypse? Revelation does not allow us to look back after the end and enumerate pivotal turning points. It happens in an immediate encounter with the transformatively new. John Miltons and Andrew Marvells lyrics attempt to render the experience of such an apocalyptic change in the present. In this respect they take seriously the Reformations insistence that eschatology is a historical phenomenon. Yet these poets are also reacting