Despairing Radicals
Blair Worden, 25 June 1992
Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet
by Katherine Duncan-Jones.
Hamish Hamilton, 350 pp., £20, September 1991,0 241 12650 9 Show More
by Katherine Duncan-Jones.
Hamish Hamilton, 350 pp., £20, September 1991,
Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis
by Jonathan Scott.
Cambridge, 406 pp., £40, October 1991,0 521 35291 6 Show More
by Jonathan Scott.
Cambridge, 406 pp., £40, October 1991,
Algernon Sidney and the Republican Heritage
by Alan Craig Houston.
Princeton, 335 pp., £22.50, November 1991,0 691 07860 2 Show More
by Alan Craig Houston.
Princeton, 335 pp., £22.50, November 1991,
Milton’s ‘History of Britain’: Republican Historiography in the English Revolution
by Nicholas vonMaltzahn.
Oxford, 244 pp., £32.50, November 1991,0 19 812897 5 Show More
by Nicholas vonMaltzahn.
Oxford, 244 pp., £32.50, November 1991,
“... and happy life’. If Scott and Houston enlarge our understanding of Sidney’s political thought, Nicholas vonMaltzahn does the same for Milton’s. Like other 17th-century figures, Milton bemoaned the lack of a proper ‘general history’ of his country. Like other writers who attempted one, he was soon bogged down ... ”
