Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660This magisterial new history of seventeenth-century republican political culture sets key texts by Marvell and Milton in a richly detailed context, showing how writers re-imagined English political and literary culture without kingship. The book draws on extensive archival research, bringing to light exciting and neglected manuscript and printed sources. Offering a bold new narrative of the whole period, and a timely reminder that England has a republican as well as royalist heritage, it will be of compelling interest to historians as well as literary scholars. |
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... Lucan and the poetry of civil war [ 23 ] 2. The king's peace and the people's war , 1630-1643 [ 63 ] 3. Rhetoric ... Lucan's Pharsalia , trans . Thomas May , vii.
... Lucan and the poetry of civil war [ 23 ] 2. The king's peace and the people's war , 1630-1643 [ 63 ] 3. Rhetoric ... Lucan's Pharsalia , trans . Thomas May , vii.
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Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook. Illustrations 1. Lucan's Pharsalia , trans . Thomas May , 1627 , sig . Q2r . By permission of the British Library ( 1068.1.6 ) 2. Title - page to Thomas May ( trans . ) , Lucan's ...
Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook. Illustrations 1. Lucan's Pharsalia , trans . Thomas May , 1627 , sig . Q2r . By permission of the British Library ( 1068.1.6 ) 2. Title - page to Thomas May ( trans . ) , Lucan's ...
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... Lucan's Pharsalia with Milton's Paradise Lost . The latter work is often inter- preted as the product of the author's despair at the collapse of republican hopes . In trying to show close structural parallels between the two epics , I ...
... Lucan's Pharsalia with Milton's Paradise Lost . The latter work is often inter- preted as the product of the author's despair at the collapse of republican hopes . In trying to show close structural parallels between the two epics , I ...
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... Lucan's Pharsalia : Bella per Emathios plus quam civilia campos , Iusque datum sceleri canimus , populumque potentem In sua victrici conversum viscera dextra [ . ] Warres more then civill on Æmathian plaines We sing : rage licens'd ...
... Lucan's Pharsalia : Bella per Emathios plus quam civilia campos , Iusque datum sceleri canimus , populumque potentem In sua victrici conversum viscera dextra [ . ] Warres more then civill on Æmathian plaines We sing : rage licens'd ...
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... Lucan was invoked in a similar context in a treatise dedicated to a leading Parliamentarian nobleman , the earl of Northumberland . The author urged the king to remedy evils by returning to Parliament and ' sheathing your sword in the ...
... Lucan was invoked in a similar context in a treatise dedicated to a leading Parliamentarian nobleman , the earl of Northumberland . The author urged the king to remedy evils by returning to Parliament and ' sheathing your sword in the ...
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