English literary history has long incorporated the category of 'Cavalier' verse, and the critical presuppositions that have shaped such a category continue, even now, to determine the ways in which much civil war writing is read. Through a detailed study of both manuscript and printed texts, James Loxley arrives at an account of the interaction between poetry and royalist political activity which for the first time presents a sustained and coherent challenge to such presuppositions.

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'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

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Book Title: Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars
Authors: James Loxley
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389199
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-66075-1Published: 27 October 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-38919-9Published: 27 October 1997
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 251
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Military, History of Early Modern Europe, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature

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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

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