The Experience of Defeat: Milton and some contemporaries

This important book, containing much new material never before published, looks at how leading radicals came to terms with the English Revolution as it slid from its high point in 1649 to the Restoration of royalty and Charles II in 1660.

Christopher Hill looks at the poets John Milton and Andrew Marvell, the republican James Harrington, the dramatist Samuel Porridge, prominent Quarkers and others. With his usual painstaking research and sharp analysis Hill brings these characters to life, showing how they survived during a period of political retreat.