Milton: Aristocrat & Rebel : the Poet and His PoliticsThe author presents an account of Milton's political philosophy set in the closest relationship to his personal and intellectual history as a political man during the English revolution, the decisive event of his life and time. He follows Milton's mind in its political manifestations from his earlier poetry before the outbreak of revolt against the Stuart monarchy, through his activity as a passionate partisan and revolutionary publicist in the decades 1640-1660, to his final work as an epic poet following the revolution's failure and the restoration of Charles II in 1660. |
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Page 63
... House of Commons , leaving a minority which would support its measures . The purged House , which became known as the Rump , then voted on 1 January 1649 to appoint a high court of justice to try the king . A few days later it resolved ...
... House of Commons , leaving a minority which would support its measures . The purged House , which became known as the Rump , then voted on 1 January 1649 to appoint a high court of justice to try the king . A few days later it resolved ...
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... House of Lords , the truncated House of Commons assumed the sovereign authority of parliament to itself alone and made the English state a commonwealth or republic . Later in that same month Charles I was brought to trial , charged with ...
... House of Lords , the truncated House of Commons assumed the sovereign authority of parliament to itself alone and made the English state a commonwealth or republic . Later in that same month Charles I was brought to trial , charged with ...
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... House of Commons . Although the House ordered the seizure and burning of all copies of Milton's Eikonoklastes and Defence of The English People and Goodwin's The Obstructours of Justice , as well as the arrest of the authors , neither ...
... House of Commons . Although the House ordered the seizure and burning of all copies of Milton's Eikonoklastes and Defence of The English People and Goodwin's The Obstructours of Justice , as well as the arrest of the authors , neither ...
Contents
Episcopacy Divorce | 30 |
Regicide and the Right of | 60 |
Republicanism and the End of | 88 |
Copyright | |
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