OLIVER CROMWELL OF ELY VISITS JOHN MILTON Art by David Neal 1894 Antique Print
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| Management number | 486093 | Release Date | 2025/07/09 | List Price | $28.50 | Model Number | 486093 | ||
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OLIVER CROMWELL OF ELY VISITS JOHN MILTON Art by David Neal 1894 Antique Print
This is a Wood Engraving / illustration / print that has been taken from a book dated 1894 and is ready for framing. Measures approximately 11 1/2 x 9 inches.
Republicanism picked up greater momentum when a series of anti-Cromwell works were published in 1656. The English republican movement, however, was not united: the so-called commonwealthmen held to the idea that the dissolution of the Rump had been illegal. Although Milton believed in their abstract ideas, he produced some works that defended the existing form of government under the Protectorate. Even in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, Milton wrote that people needed to support the present Parliament & Army . His republicanism was put aside to support the government, and, in Defensio Secunda, he praised Cromwell's rule. Once Cromwell died and the Commonwealth fell apart, Milton returned to his republican principles, and he published severa
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