Turncoat poets of the English Revolution

• Main Author: Allsopp, Niall
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: University of Oxford 2015
• Subjects: 1500-1700; 1642-1649; 17th century; Civil War; Early modern; English; Great Britain; History; Literature and the war; Poets; Political and social views; Politics and literature; War and literature

Edmund Waller, William Davenant, Andrew Marvell, and Abraham Cowley were royalist poets who changed sides following the English Revolution, attracted to Cromwellian military power, and the reforming aims of the Independents. This thesis contributes to existing scholarship by showing that the poets e...