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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37 Christopher Hill , The World Turned Upside Down ( Harmondsworth , 1975 ) ,
p . 345. Hill notes that Cromwell ' lumped Levellers and True Levellers together
as “ a despicable and contemptible generation of men , ” “ persons differing little ...
37 Christopher Hill , The World Turned Upside Down ( Harmondsworth , 1975 ) ,
p . 345. Hill notes that Cromwell ' lumped Levellers and True Levellers together
as “ a despicable and contemptible generation of men , ” “ persons differing little ...
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539-40 ) for diversion ' So hills amid the air encountered hills / Hurled to and fro
with jaculation dire , / That under ground they fought in dismal shade ' ( vi . 664-6
) , are incidents worthy of Hudibras . Indeed , puns about cannon and breaches ...
539-40 ) for diversion ' So hills amid the air encountered hills / Hurled to and fro
with jaculation dire , / That under ground they fought in dismal shade ' ( vi . 664-6
) , are incidents worthy of Hudibras . Indeed , puns about cannon and breaches ...
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... by that name If rightly thou art calld , whose Voice divine Following , above the
Olympian Hill I soar , Above the flight of ... but heavenly born , Before the hills
appeared , or fountain flowed , Thou with eternal Wisdom didst converse ,
Wisdom ...
... by that name If rightly thou art calld , whose Voice divine Following , above the
Olympian Hill I soar , Above the flight of ... but heavenly born , Before the hills
appeared , or fountain flowed , Thou with eternal Wisdom didst converse ,
Wisdom ...
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Contents
List of abbreviations | 1 |
Politics | 28 |
Religio Medici in the English Revolution | 89 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Dragon's Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution |
| Authors | Michael Wilding, Reader in English Michael Wilding |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0198128819, 9780198128816 |
| Length | 280 pages |
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