Loyalist Resolve: Patient Fortitude in the English Civil WarUniversity of Delaware Press, 1988 - 233 Seiten This study analyzes a series of complex, ambivalent literary responses to the decades of civil turmoil in seventeenth-century England that simultaneously demanded public commitment and prompted private withdrawal. From their various perspectives the Royalist writers raised in the humanist tradition are shown to appreciate anew the value of patient fortitude. |
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William Cartwright and the Gatherd Mind | 46 |
George Daniel and the Onlie True Content | 69 |
Richard Lovelace and the Gallant Thoroughmade Resolve | 97 |
Alexander Brome and the Safe Estate | 127 |
Abraham Cowley and the Soule Composd of thEagle and the Dove | 155 |
Notes | 183 |
Select Bibliography | 209 |
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