SOURCE: Literary Introduction to Politics, Religion, and Literature in the Seventeenth Century, edited by William Lamont and Sybil Oldfield, J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd, 1975, pp. xiii-xvii.
In the following essay, Lamont and Oldfield describe the literature of the 1640s as obsessed with religion and argue that the issues which inspired the poetry of that time period are still relevant today.
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