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Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane
Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of immense lyric talent and political importance. The …
Writing and Political Engagement in Seventeenth-Century England
This volume, first published in 2000, focuses on the relationship between writing and public concerns in seventeenth-century England before, during and after the civil wars and …
Truths, Half Truths and Bovine Scatology
Representative of the People?
Dr Hirst examines politics from the point of view of the ordinary man before the Civil War.
Truths, Half Truths and Bovine Scatology
What better way to contemplate history than to start at the beginning, in the book of Genesis. The late Andy Rooney struck a chord with me that I have been grappling with for some …
The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and …
England in Conflict 1603-1660
This book, by one of the foremost living historians of seventeenth-century England, is a wholesale revision of his classic "Authority and Conflict, England 1603-1658" (1986). Hirst …
The Representative of the People?
Contested elections became a fact of political life for the first time in early-17th-century England as the gentry pressed for seats in a parliament which was growing increasingly …
Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and …