The Matter of Revolution: Science Poetry and Politics in the Age of Milton

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John Rogers here addresses the literary and ideological consequences of the remarkable if improbable alliance between science and politics in seventeenth-century England. He looks at the cultural intersection between the English and Scientific Revolutions concentrating on a body of work created in a brief but potent burst of intellectual activity during the period of the Civil Wars the Interregnum and the earliest years of the Stuart Restoration. Rogers traces the broad implications of a seemingly outlandish cultural phenomenon: the intellectual imperative to forge an ontological connection between physical motion and political action.