Robert Wilcher is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Andrew Marvel (Cambridge University Press, 1985), Andrew Marvell: Selected Poetry and Prose (1986) and Understanding Arnold Wesker (1991).
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The halcyon days: 1628-37
2. The Bishop's Wars and the Short Parliament: July 1637-October 1640
3. The Long Parliament and the trial of Strafford: November 1640-May 1641
4. The beginnings of constitutional royalism: May-October 1641
5. The emergence of the constitutional royalists: October 1641-March 1642
6. The beginning of hostilities: March 1642-April 1643
7. Learning to write the war: April-September 1643
8. Declining fortunes: from Newbury to Marston Moor: September 1643-June 1644
9. Defeat, captivity, and exile: July 1644-September 1647
10. Trial and martyrdom: September 1647-January 1649
11. Lamenting the King: 1649
12. Coping with defeat and waiting for the King: 1649-60
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