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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... Poet in England ' . In fact , Wither was never captured and during the campaign in question it was Denham who surrendered . Another much - cited anecdote links Wither to the republican Henry Marten , whose image has never recov- ered ...
... Poet in England ' . In fact , Wither was never captured and during the campaign in question it was Denham who surrendered . Another much - cited anecdote links Wither to the republican Henry Marten , whose image has never recov- ered ...
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... poet's body will be expelled from Westminster Abbey ; this prophecy was fulfilled in a grisly way when in 1661 his body was disinterred in a mass exhumation that extended to many republicans and Cromwellians . The violence of such acts ...
... poet's body will be expelled from Westminster Abbey ; this prophecy was fulfilled in a grisly way when in 1661 his body was disinterred in a mass exhumation that extended to many republicans and Cromwellians . The violence of such acts ...
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... poets contributed to a cult of Henry Marten ; Coleridge and Lamb rehabilitated Wither ; while Walter Savage Landor - who was delighted that his birthday coincided with the anniversary of the regicide - maintained a poetic cult of the ...
... poets contributed to a cult of Henry Marten ; Coleridge and Lamb rehabilitated Wither ; while Walter Savage Landor - who was delighted that his birthday coincided with the anniversary of the regicide - maintained a poetic cult of the ...
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... poet Samuel Daniel commented in 1613 that the freedom to write a true history is ' a liberty proper onely to Common - wealths , and neuer permitted to Kingdomes , but vnder good Princes ? 46 When in 1636 John Dury wrote from Sweden that ...
... poet Samuel Daniel commented in 1613 that the freedom to write a true history is ' a liberty proper onely to Common - wealths , and neuer permitted to Kingdomes , but vnder good Princes ? 46 When in 1636 John Dury wrote from Sweden that ...
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... poet Francis Quarles could write at one point of ' a Prince , or a Republique ' as alternatives , and a few pages later use ' Republique ' for any form of government : the political context would determine the word's precise meaning ...
... poet Francis Quarles could write at one point of ' a Prince , or a Republique ' as alternatives , and a few pages later use ' Republique ' for any form of government : the political context would determine the word's precise meaning ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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