Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars The Drawn Sword

English literary history has long incorporated the category of 'Cavalier' verse, and the critical presuppositions that have shaped such a category continue, even now, to determine the ways in which much civil war writing is read. Through a detailed study

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ROYALISM AND POETRY IN THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS

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EARLY MODERN LITERATURE IN HISTORY

Within the period 1520-1740 this series discusses many kinds of writing, both within and outside the established canon. The volumes may employ different theoretical perspectives, but they share an historical awareness and an interest in seeing their texts in lively negotiation with their own and successive cultures. Published titles Anna R. Beer SIR WALTER RALEGH AND HIS READERS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: Speaking to the People Cedric C. Brown and Arthur F. Marotti (editors) TEXTS AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND James Loxley ROYALISM AND POETRY IN THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS: The Drawn Sword Mark Thornton Burnett MASTERS AND SERVANTS IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA AND CULTURE: Authority and Obedience

The series Early M o d e r n Literature in History is p u b l i s h e d in association w i t h the Renaissance Texts Research C e n t r e at the University of Reading.

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Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 0-312-17608-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in~Publication Data Loxley, James, 1968— Royalism and poetry in the English Civil Wars : the drawn sword / James Loxley. p. cm. — (Early modern literature in history) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-312-17608-2 (cloth) 1. English poetry—Early modem, 1500-1700—History and criticism. 2. Great Britain—History—Civil War, 1642-1649—Literature and the war. 3. Politics and literature—Great Britain—Histor