Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England
John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 February 2009
- ISBN 9780199230822
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages456 pages
- Size 234x156x25 mm
- Weight 713 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
Here is a new approach to the historical study of literature. A leading historian of the English civil wars looks at the writings of the two great poets of the time. John Milton and Andrew Marvell, and relates them as never before to the dramatic developments which brought about the execution of King Charles and the rise of Oliver Cromwell.
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In this book a pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses their writings against the background of volatile and dramatic changes of public mood and circumstance. Two figures are shown to have been prominent in their minds. First there is Oliver Cromwell, on whose character and decisions the future of the Puritan Revolution and of the nation rested, and whose ascent the two writers traced and assessed, in both cases with an acute ambivalence. The second is Marchamont Nedham, the pioneering journalist of the civil wars, a close friend of Milton and a man whose writings prove to be intimately linked to Marvell's. The high achievements of Milton and Marvell are shown to belong to world of pressing political debate which Nedham's ephemeral publications helped to shape. The book follows Marvell's transition from royalism to Cromwellianism. In Milton's case we explore the profound effect on his outlook brought by the execution of King Charles I in 1649; his difficult and disillusioning relationship with the successive regimes of the Interregnum; and his attempt to come to terms, in his immortal poetry of the Restoration, with the failure of Puritan rule.
...a work of immense richness and its implications will be debated for many years to come...what this book does, it does superbly well, and it will send scholars back to the sources with new questions and new answers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Nedham
Milton and Nedham
Marvell and Nedham
Marvell in 1650
Marvell and the Ambassadors
Marvell and the First Anniversary
Milton and the Civil Wars
Milton and the New Order
Milton in Journalism
Milton and the Commonwealth
Milton and Cromwell
Milton's Second Defence
Milton and the Protectorate
Milton and the Good Old Cause
Milton and Samson Agonistes
Milton and the Fall of England
Appendix A: Milton and the Embassy of 1651
Appendix B: Milton and Cromwell's Advisers
Appendix C: The Composition of Milton's History of Britain
