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COPYRIGHT 1993 University of Illinois Press
Like Milton's "Lycidas" and Hobbes's Leviathan, "the English Revolution" seems extraordinarily fertile for interesting interpretations. Their diversity is astounding. Marvell held the radical goal too good a cause to be fought for. Men should have trusted God and the king with all that. Butler's great and greatly degrading Hudibras, Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, and Clarendon's History of the Grand Rebellion all testify - early on - to the variously fecund nature of 1642 - 1660 and all that. In our own time it has kept three generations of historians in business: see Lawrence Stone, "The Revolution Over the Revolution," New York Review of Books, 11 June 1992, pp. 47-52. Now there comes a fresh, jargon-free, and eminently readable account by an Associate Professor of English,...
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