Worden, Blair

The Rump Parliament, 1648-1653 by Blair Worden ( Book )
10 editions published between 1974 and 1977 in English and held by 866 libraries worldwide

Stuart England ( Book )
6 editions published in 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 545 libraries worldwide

The sound of virtue : Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Elizabethan politics by Blair Worden ( Book )
6 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 517 libraries worldwide

Literature and politics in Cromwellian England : John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham by Blair Worden ( Book )
12 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in English and held by 412 libraries worldwide
"This book, by the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England, offers a fresh approach to the political lives of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden shows how differently their writing reads when its involvement in epochal events is historically reconstructed. We trace the responses of the two men to the execution of King Charles I; to the experience, unique in English history, of republican government; to the failure of that experiment; and to the rule of Oliver Cromwell, whose ascent, at the expense of king and parliament alike, inspired ambivalent sentiment in Milton and Marvell. Both authors underwent intensely felt changes of allegiance between the regicide and the Restoration. First we follow Marvell's gradual and painful transition from royalism to Cromwellianism. Then we examine Milton's entry into politics under the Commonwealth and the revisions of his perspective that followed it. We watch his difficult and disillusioning relationships with the successive regimes of the Interregnum, and view his engagement, in immortal poetry, with the collapse of Puritan rule. Our third author is Marvell's and Milton's common literary partner, and their colleague in government service at Whitehall, the political thinker and pioneering journalist Marchamont Nedham, whose writing shares and illuminates the preoccupation of the two more famous writers with the debates and dilemmas of that volatile era."--Jacket.

Soldiers, writers, and statesmen of the English Revolution ( Book )
7 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 322 libraries worldwide
A collection of essays about major aspects of the 'English Revolution' of the mid-seventeenth century.

History & imagination : essays in honor of H.R. Trevor-Roper ( Book )
4 editions published between 1980 and 1982 in English and held by 316 libraries worldwide

Roundhead reputations : the English civil wars and the passions of posterity by Blair Worden ( Book )
6 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 228 libraries worldwide

The English Civil Wars : 1640-1660 by Blair Worden ( Book )
5 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 226 libraries worldwide
"Nothing in English history has so imprinted itself on the nation's history as the upheavals of the mid-seventeenth century. And nothing has so divided posterity. This short book provides a crisp and lucid narrative of the complicated events of 1640 to 1660 - not just the war between King and Parliament of 1642-6 but the second civil war, the execution of King Charles 1, the rule of Cromwell and finally the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. But it also aims at something more elusive: to get behind the concerns and preoccupations of later generations and explain what contemporaries on both sides thought they were fighting for and against." "This account stresses the unpredictability not only of the military outcomes but also of the longer-term results."--BOOK JACKET.

History & imagination : essays in honour of H.R. Trevor-Roper ( Book )
6 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 197 libraries worldwide

John Milton : life, writing, reputation ( Book )
2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 61 libraries worldwide