In Myrtle Bowers
Blair Worden: Cavaliers, 30 June 2011
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War
by John Stubbs.
Viking, 549 pp., £25, February 2011,978 0 670 91753 2 Show More
by John Stubbs.
Viking, 549 pp., £25, February 2011,
“... as principal ‘Cavalier’ poets: Robert Herrick, who advised us to gather ye rosebuds while we may, and Richard Lovelace, the stone walls of whose incarceration by Parliament did not a prison make. But what is Stubbs’s account of Milton, the spokesman for regicide, doing in the book? Why do we tour the agonised mind of ... ”