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The History of Britain (Milton)

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of his time. He admitted the unreliability of many of his sources, but justified his use of popular fables "be it for nothing else but in favour of our English poets and rhetoricians, who by their art will know how to use them judiciously".
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The History of Britain, that Part especially now called England; from the first traditional Beginning, continued to the Norman Conquest. Collected out of the antientest and best Authours thereof
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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?
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The six books are untitled in the free on-line version of the text. The titles below have been added to give an idea of the content.
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Includes a digression, that was suppressed in early editions, on the relationship between Parliament and the Crown.
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume VII. Cavalier and Puritan
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around 1649, completing four books in the first phase, then continued in the 1650s with a further two books. The
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This article is about the work by John Milton. For other uses, see
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Index

History of Britain
John Milton
English Civil War
restored monarchy
St. Paul's
Antiquity
The Roman era
Saxons
Saxon kingdoms
Ecbert
Edgar
Edward the Younger
Harold
Facsimile edition at Online Library of Liberty
"Paradise Lost and Later Years", University of South Carolina
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume VII. Cavalier and Puritan, accessed at Bartleby.com
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The History of Britain
Internet Archive
The History of Britain
LibriVox
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John Milton
Poetic style
Reception history
Religion
Politics
Early life

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