Messiah's Kingdom Explained
Messiah's Kingdom is a long poem by Agnes Bulmer.[1] It was published in 1833. It is regarded as the longest poem written by a woman.[2] [3] It consists of some 14,000 lines grouped in twelve books. The poem is written in heroic couplet[4] but the introduction is made up of four 13-line stanzas like this one:
Of Him, high raised on Heaven's stupendous throne,
Beneath whose feet the sapphire pavement glows;
O'er whose intensest splendours, dread, unknown,
The beaming bow its milder radiance throws;
Around whose state, in bright attendance, close
The full-toned choir of harping cherubim.
Seraphs, whose robes empyreal lights compose,
And angels, breathing soft the' adoring hymn:—
Of Him, Eternal, Infinite, Supreme,
Fain would a mortal Muse, adventurous, sing;
Him, for archangel minds too vast a theme,
Who yet, when babes their meek hosannas bring,
Inclines with gentlest grace, and veils in Mercy's wing.
The poet was praised for "harmonious versification".[5] The poem was reviewed also in The Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review.[6]
References
- https://18thcenturyculture.wordpress.com/primary-sources/agnes-bulmer/ Agnes Bulmer 18th at Century Religion, Literature, and Culture.
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bulmer,_Agnes_(DNB00) Richard Watson Dixon, Bulmer, Agnes at Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 07.
- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09699082.2015.1011841?journalCode=rwow20 Andrew O. Winckles, The Book of Nature and the Methodist Epic: Agnes Bulmer's Analogic Poetics and the End(s) of Romanticism.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=0aMSDAAAQBAJ&dq=agnes+bulmer+messiahs&pg=PA284 Herbert F. Tucker, Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910, p. 284.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=S6wEAAAAQAAJ&dq=messiahs+kingdom+bilmer+verse+form&pg=PA585 British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, &c., Vol. III, 1833, p. 585.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=8INJAAAAMAAJ&dq=agnes+bulmer+poet&pg=PA473 The Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, XV (New series IV), 1833, p. 473-477.
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