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Cover -- Futures Of Enlightenment Poetry -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- A Note On Sources And Quotations -- Introduction: Futurity Two Ways, From Milton To Now -- A Mortalist Poetics And A Familiar Future -- A Spiritualist Poetics And A Break From The Cycle -- Critical Implications -- Historical Poetics And Lyric Studies -- Materialism, Counter-materialism, And Literary History -- Personal Bearings -- Movement One: Waiting In Matter -- 1: An Education For The Present -- The Socinian Son And The Educated Word -- Time For Whiling Prolepsis And Postponement -- A Miracle In The Present -- A Milton With No Future -- Interlude: Animating Nature -- Movement Two: Rising To Spirit -- 2: Gender After Sex -- Beyond Feminine Flesh -- Rowe's Speculations About An Angelic State -- The Soul In Chains: From The Poet To The Libertine -- Spirits To Love -- The Angels Closest To God -- An Intimate God -- Lady Hertford -- Spiritualization As Feminization -- 3: Commerce After Money -- Mining In The Maritime Georgic -- Night Thoughts And Depth: The Interiorities Of Angels -- Night Thoughts And Movement: The Self-extraction Of Souls Out Of God And The Earth -- Resting In Mid-flight -- Gilded Restlessness -- 4: Creation After Reproduction -- The Embryonic -- The Immaterial -- Divine Creation And Preexistent Freedom -- Poetic Impressions In The Pleasures Of Imagination -- The Father's Line, Akenside To Darwin -- Interlude: Buried Alive -- Movement Three: Returning To Matter -- 5: The Place For Gloom -- Returning To The Body: A Summer Evening's Meditation -- Gloomy Young And The Allure Of Distress -- A Cheerful Poet And An Unoriginal Classic -- Gregory's Grief And Gloom's Value Barbauld's Late Poetry: A Future Without A Soul -- The Gloomy Body Politic -- 6: Romantic Re-embodiment And Beyond -- Mortalist Arcs: Early Wordsworth, The Lyric, And The Miltonic -- Tintern Abbey After Disembodiment -- The Faith Of The Immortality Ode -- Wheatley