Books written by Nicholas McDowell

  • Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton
    Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton

    publication may have had something to do with Milton's social life when he moved to London in 1640 and apparently dropped 'into the society of some young sparks of his acquaintance, the chief whereof were Mr Alphry and Mr Miller, ...

  • Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton
    Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton

    ... therefore may be recall'd into use by any Christian Prince or Common- wealth'.7 Young knew better than anyone the intellectual abilities of his former pupil; perhaps they even disputed the issues of divorce and digamy privately.

  • The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660
    The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660

    Another young , unqualified pupil of Dugard's , John Roe , was encouraged to preach while on vacation from Emmanuel College , Cambridge , in December 1638 and 1639. This is possibly the same John Roe who later became chaplain to the ...

  • Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit
    Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit

    Oct. 6' by the words 'black... ribband' in the verse epistle 'To Sir Thomas Roe. 1603' (in fact not by Donne but Sir John Roe). Oldisworth, who was at Cambridge at the same time as Stanley and at Trinity at the same time as Marvell, ...

  • The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature: A - F.
    The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature: A - F.

    Featuring over 400 clear and accessible entries on a wide range of writers and literary forms, this comprehensive three-volume collection covers canonical authors and their works - from John Skelton to John Milton – as well as a variety ...

  • The Oxford Handbook of Milton
    The Oxford Handbook of Milton

    William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience constitute perhaps the deepest example of the oppositional and ... political and personal judgements.1 The inner quarrel is formally evident in Yeats's 'Dialogue of Self and Soul', ...

  • The Oxford Handbook of Milton
    The Oxford Handbook of Milton

    But queens had had a long-standing interest in masques, and, even before Henrietta Maria, the masque was a woman's form—a ... 1992), 189–207, and Karen Britland, Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria (Cambridge, 2006), 35–52.

  • The Oxford Handbook of Milton
    The Oxford Handbook of Milton

    A comprehensive guide to the state of Milton studies in the first decade of the 21st century.

  • Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit
    Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit

    ... English Civil War, 59–60. 108 On A true account, see Hughes, Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution, 319–20; see also her comment that Gangraena helped 'construct polemical communities in which divisions on some issues ...