Secular Chains - Connell, Philip (Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English and Fellow of Selwyn College, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English and Fellow of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge)

Secular Chains uses close readings of the work of a range of canonical poets to re-evaluate the relationship between English literary culture and the political challenges to religious authority that emerged in the wake of the civil wars, and which culminated in the intellectual ferment of the early Enlightenment.