Dragon's Teeth: Literature in the English RevolutionClarendon Press, 1987 - 280 "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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... heroic grandeur . Although past civil wars had later found epic treatment , the contemporary slaughter of fellow - countrymen could have little appeal . The two most famous heroic poems of the Restoration concerned themselves with ...
... heroic grandeur . Although past civil wars had later found epic treatment , the contemporary slaughter of fellow - countrymen could have little appeal . The two most famous heroic poems of the Restoration concerned themselves with ...
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... heroic warriors ; they even sing commemorations of their heroic deeds , archetypal or prototypical epic poems . They engage in the heroic games beloved of the epic as they wait for Satan to return from his mission to earth . Part on the ...
... heroic warriors ; they even sing commemorations of their heroic deeds , archetypal or prototypical epic poems . They engage in the heroic games beloved of the epic as they wait for Satan to return from his mission to earth . Part on the ...
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... heroic note above , such a parallel serves only to contrast the heroic with the actualities of the situation - Hudibras's attack on a woman . This reflects ill enough on our hero and on heroism ; worse though is the fact that he is ...
... heroic note above , such a parallel serves only to contrast the heroic with the actualities of the situation - Hudibras's attack on a woman . This reflects ill enough on our hero and on heroism ; worse though is the fact that he is ...
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