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Albert Poyet, « Dénonciation des millénaristes et séduction du millénarisme dans l'oeuvre de Dryden », Caliban, ID : 10.3406/calib.1998.1353
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Strictly speaking, Dryden was never a chiliast, but he lived in times steeped in prophecies and rife with the belief that Christ would reign on earth for a thousand years before the Last Days. Of course, these dreams, which often went along with a violent denunciation of existing inequalities, were most forcefully entertained by the members of various dissenting sects whom Dryden tended to merge into the same indistinct mass and to assimilate in particular to the feared Anabaptists ; and he never stopped attacking them. However, he was deeply influenced by the utopian hopes fostered by millennialism. Down to the end of the 1680's, he kept introducing gorgeous visions recalling the Golden Age or the Garden of Eden before the Fall. And throughout his life, including the last ten years, he expressed as well his qualified belief in some sort of forward progress. Based on theology, his teleology integrated history and reflected his humanist concerns ; thus it anticipated the Enlightenment.