Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars

JAMES LOXLEY

• List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations and Note on the Text - Introduction: As clearly malignant as cavalier - 'Cum Priuilegio: For the KING': a Caroline poetry of praise - 'Bels which ring backward': war and the pen - 'T' upbraid the State Poeticks of this time': making sense of the enemy - 'Thy visage is not legible': royal author, royal text - 'Like committed Linnets': polemic and the poetry of retirement - Notes - Index

'Loxley most convincingly confronts the critical views of Cavalier verse as a poetics of retirement...Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars effectively challenges a still prevalent critical construct of Cavalier verse.' - Jim Daems, Early Modern Literary Studies 'Loxley is particularly good on the university context of these poets, distinguishing between Oxford and Cambridge 'schools' of poetry...the book repays re-reading.' - Paul Dean, English Studies