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The Experience of Defeat

Paperback • 1984 • English

The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries

By Christopher Hill

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The failure of the English Revolution in 1660 provoked a variety of responses among radical clergy, intellectuals, and writers, as they struggled to accept and account for their defeat in the light of divine Providence. Christopher Hill's close analysis of the writings of Levellers and Diggers, of Fox and other important early Quakers, suggests that the revolutionary beliefs and savage social judgements and disillusionments that Milton expressed in his writings at the time was shared by many of ...Show more

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9780140552034

Published year

1984

Language

English

Original title

The Experience of Defeat

Format

Paperback

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