`As a reviewer, I am hard-pressed to find even a quibble with this book. The great merit of Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature 1640-1660 lies in its careful, painstaking contextualization of the literature of the interregnum year by year and even month by month ... He captures a delicate, complicated interaction between politics, history and literary invention that cannot be reduced to fit a simple ideological model. Professor Corns's prose is clear and elegant, even elegiac in the final chapters. He has made a major contribution to seventeenth-century studies, to Milton studies and to new historicism.'Frank Cass Journals, Vol 16, No 2 (Aug 1993)

`As a reviewer, I am hard-pressed to find even a quibble with this book. The great merit of Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature 1640-1660 lies in its careful, painstaking contextualization of the literature of the interregnum year by year and even month by month ... He captures a delicate, complicated interaction between politics, history and literary invention that cannot be reduced to fit a simple ideological model. Professor Corns's prose is clear and elegant, even elegiac in the final chapters. He has made a major contribution to seventeenth-century studies, to Milton studies and to new historicism.'Frank Cass Journals, Vol 16, No 2 (Aug 1993)

`As a reviewer, I am hard-pressed to find even a quibble with this book. The great merit of Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature 1640-1660 lies in its careful, painstaking contextualization of the literature of the interregnum year by year and even month by month ... He captures a delicate, complicated interaction between politics, history and literary invention that cannot be reduced to fit a simple ideological model. Professor Corns's prose is clear and elegant, even elegiac in the final chapters. He has made a major contribution to seventeenth-century studies, to Milton studies and to new historicism.'Frank Cass Journals, Vol 16, No 2 (Aug 1993)