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,
“... concerns of national politics. They will await the more eagerly his forthcoming study of Lucy Hutchinson, who, not content with protecting her regicide husband from the scaffold, wrote her own Creation epic. The case for the republican conscience resounds most eloquently in the impressive coda to this book, in which Norbrook vindicates the political ... ”