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).

'… a thorough, well-informed, clearly written and intensely responsible survey of a kind which ought to win over any historians still sceptical about whether narrative history and literature can be combined.' History

• Illustrations; 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; Index.

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).

'… a thorough, well-informed, clearly written and intensely responsible survey of a kind which ought to win over any historians still sceptical about whether narrative history and literature can be combined.' History

• Illustrations; 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; Index.

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).

'… a thorough, well-informed, clearly written and intensely responsible survey of a kind which ought to win over any historians still sceptical about whether narrative history and literature can be combined.' History

• Illustrations; 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; Index.