Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-1660

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 10; p. 95
• Main Author: Watson, Alistair E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2001
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); English language; English literature; Poetry; Politics; Rhetoric; Wither, George (1588-1667)

Norbrook demonstrates too how consideration of Machiavelli' s Discourses in, for example, the work of the indefatigable George Wither or that of the arch-republican Henry Marten, continues a tradition of civic humanism which looks back to republican models in Livy and Cicero. Underpinning the t...