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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... Wither , Thomas May and many others , showing how writers re - imag- ined English political and literary culture without kingship . The book draws on extensive archival research , bringing to light exciting and neglected manu- script ...
... Wither , Thomas May and many others , showing how writers re - imag- ined English political and literary culture without kingship . The book draws on extensive archival research , bringing to light exciting and neglected manu- script ...
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... Wither and the English Revolution , 1642-1649 ' , English Literary Renaissance 21 ( 1991 ) , 217-56 ; reprinted with permission of the editors . Chapter 6 : ' Marvell's " Horatian Ode " and the Politics of Genre ' , in Thomas Healy and ...
... Wither and the English Revolution , 1642-1649 ' , English Literary Renaissance 21 ( 1991 ) , 217-56 ; reprinted with permission of the editors . Chapter 6 : ' Marvell's " Horatian Ode " and the Politics of Genre ' , in Thomas Healy and ...
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... Wither is that during the Civil War he was captured and con- demned to be hanged . He was reprieved by Sir John Denham , who declared that ' whilest G. W. lived , he [ Denham ] should not be the worst Poet in England ' . In fact , Wither ...
... Wither is that during the Civil War he was captured and con- demned to be hanged . He was reprieved by Sir John Denham , who declared that ' whilest G. W. lived , he [ Denham ] should not be the worst Poet in England ' . In fact , Wither ...
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... Wither ; while Walter Savage Landor - who was delighted that his birthday coincided with the anniversary of the regicide - maintained a poetic cult of the republicans.27 As for William Blake , the motto for his ' Republican Art ' was ...
... Wither ; while Walter Savage Landor - who was delighted that his birthday coincided with the anniversary of the regicide - maintained a poetic cult of the republicans.27 As for William Blake , the motto for his ' Republican Art ' was ...
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... Wither's versified tracts or Milton's image - dense prose . In approaching the period , we do well to set aside a narrow model of what counts as literary and to be open to experimentation that linked poetry with popular newsbooks and ...
... Wither's versified tracts or Milton's image - dense prose . In approaching the period , we do well to set aside a narrow model of what counts as literary and to be open to experimentation that linked poetry with popular newsbooks and ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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