Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars

This book is about the things which could unite, rather than divide, poets during the English Civil Wars: friendship, patronage relations, literary admiration, and anti-clericalism. The central figure is Andrew Marvell, renowned for his ''ambivalent'' allegiance in the late 1640s. Little is known about Marvell''s associations in this period, when many of his best-known lyrics were composed. The Lo...