Writing the English Republic
Subtitle: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 16271660
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9780521785693
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1600 to c 1700; Poetry; English; Literary Criticism; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--Hist; English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In July 1642, England stood on the brink of civil war.