Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lost Oracles: A Masque
The Book of Revelation, sometimes known as the Apocalypse, and traditionally but erroneously ascribed to Saint John, was the basis of many a mediaeval mystery. In more modern times its sublime scenes and gorgeous imagery has furnished forth a number of oratorios (though no opera, so far as I am aware), and been the subject of many a painter's brush. Under the circumstances it may seem presumptuous to think that any new and fresh interpretation of so old a theme is possible. Yet I venture to hope that in the dramatization of the struggle between the pagan cults of antiquity and early Christianity here presented, both the Apocalypse and the Death of the Gods have received a new literary valuation. For I have tried to touch with modern poetry and modern passion one of the most tragically beautiful episodes in the history of human culture.
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