Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution

by Michael Wilding

"Books," wrote Milton, "are like dragon's teeth that spring up armed men." This study looks at some of the armed men that Milton, Marvell, Browne, and Butler sent off to fight, reading a series of 17th-century literary texts against the historical and political backdrop of the English Revolution. Confronting the formalist taboo on historical and political context, Wilding provides many challenging new readings, exploring issues of war and peace, of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198128819
• ISBN13: 9780198128816
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"