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... Restoration , two alternative , but not incompatible , responses to the triumph of un - reason over reason , the one ... Restoration period , which express the world vision of an emergent triumphant rationalism , and secondly , with the ...
... Restoration , two alternative , but not incompatible , responses to the triumph of un - reason over reason , the one ... Restoration period , which express the world vision of an emergent triumphant rationalism , and secondly , with the ...
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... Restoration in 1660 , and receives artistic expression in the three longer poems , Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes . Paradise Lost was , of course , probably begun before the Restoration , but it was not ...
... Restoration in 1660 , and receives artistic expression in the three longer poems , Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes . Paradise Lost was , of course , probably begun before the Restoration , but it was not ...
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... Restoration itself , is overcome by the synthesis of a realisable individual moral purity with an over - arching , morally beneficent , and divinely ordered , historical process . But in neither Paradise Regained nor Samson Agonistes is ...
... Restoration itself , is overcome by the synthesis of a realisable individual moral purity with an over - arching , morally beneficent , and divinely ordered , historical process . But in neither Paradise Regained nor Samson Agonistes is ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
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