SOURCE: "History and Propaganda," in The Civil War, edited by Allan Pritchard, University of Toronto Press, 1973, pp. 13-35.
In the essay below, Pritchard offers an extended evaluation of The Civil War in terms of the torrent of Royalist propaganda unleashed in the first months of the conflict. He examines various elements of the poem, including its depiction of military action, its structural design, its conservative political views, and its polemical treatment of history.
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