Democratic Sublime
Derek Hirst: Writing the English republic, 19 August 1999
Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-60
by David Norbrook.
Cambridge, 509 pp., £40, January 1999,0 521 63275 7 Show More
by David Norbrook.
Cambridge, 509 pp., £40, January 1999,
“... when the axe fell on Charles Stuart’s neck, was no mere romantic gesture. Rather, it declared David Norbrook’s belief that to vindicate the cultural vitality and integrity of English republicanism at its moment of flowering – a moment of high energy not only in politics but also in political thought, journalism and in literature, too – is to make a ... ”