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The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries

By Christopher Hill

The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries book

The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries

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In The World Turned Upside Down (1972) Christopher Hill presented the ferment of radical ideas which welled up in England in the revolutionary 1640s and 1650s. This brilliant and controversial study was followed five years later by Milton and the English Revolution which examined with imagination, knowledge and intellectual sympathy Milton's attempt to come to terms in his three last great poems, with the bitterness of defeat and God's apparent betrayal of his servants who had attempted to establish his Kingdom on Earth. In The Experience of Defeat Dr Hill turns from Milton to other radicals -- Andrew Marvell, Cromwell's chaplains, Owen and Goodwin, the republican James Harrington, the dramatist Samuel Pordage, some leading Quakers and others. Poets and prophets, pacifists and politicians: the characters who fill this broad canvas are varied and fascinating. In trying to elucidate their very different experiences of defeat, the book helps to throw light on what the Restoration of 1660 meant to contemporaries, and therefore on the revolution which it brought to an end. It is a book as rich and original as anything Christopher Hill has ever written.
Product details
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
1984-07-01
Publication Date:
1984-07-01
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0571132375
Weight:
454 g
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