Dragon's Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution"Books," wrote Milton, "are like dragon's teeth that spring up armed men." This study looks at some of the armed men that Milton, Marvell, Browne, and Butler sent off to fight, reading a series of 17th-century literary texts against the historical and political backdrop of the English Revolution. Confronting the formalist taboo on historical and political context, Wilding provides many challenging new readings, exploring issues of war and peace, of economic exploitation, social repression and the radical politics of the Levellers and Diggers. The issues that resulted in revolution three centuries ago are still relevant today, as Wilding persuasively demonstrates in a collection that will interest scholars and students of English literature, history, and political science. |
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... T. S. Eliot wrote in 1947 : The fact is simply that the Civil War of the seventeenth century , in which Milton is a symbolic figure , has never been concluded . The Civil War is not ended : I question whether any serious civil war does ...
... T. S. Eliot wrote in 1947 : The fact is simply that the Civil War of the seventeenth century , in which Milton is a symbolic figure , has never been concluded . The Civil War is not ended : I question whether any serious civil war does ...
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... T. S. Eliot picked out this passage and lines 29-36 for praise as examples of Marvell's wit : There is here an equipoise , a balance and proportion of tones , which , while it cannot raise Marvell to the level of Dryden or Milton ...
... T. S. Eliot picked out this passage and lines 29-36 for praise as examples of Marvell's wit : There is here an equipoise , a balance and proportion of tones , which , while it cannot raise Marvell to the level of Dryden or Milton ...
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... Eliot , and Leavis should ever have been associated with any stance thought to be radical . Their ensuing political ... T. S. Eliot's essay ' Andrew Marvell ' ( 1921 ) is reprinted in Selected Essays ( London , 1961 ) , pp . 292 ...
... Eliot , and Leavis should ever have been associated with any stance thought to be radical . Their ensuing political ... T. S. Eliot's essay ' Andrew Marvell ' ( 1921 ) is reprinted in Selected Essays ( London , 1961 ) , pp . 292 ...
Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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