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Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate - Culture, Politics and Institutions
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Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate - Culture, Politics and InstitutionsPoetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate - Culture, Politics and Institutions

Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate asks how poetry confronted questions that were complicated by institutional practices, how poets tried to square their wider cultural sympathies with their interests in a particular parliamentary or university crisis, and how changes in institutions afforded poets critical insights into their society's problems and its place in the world. The readings in this book challenge previous representations of Protectorate culture as a phase of conservative backsliding, or pragmatic compromise, under a quasi-monarchical order.
 
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