The shadow flies

Description:

A historical romance set in the years just before the English Civil War. While cleverly avoiding the descriptions of actual executions or bloody battle scenes, it nevertheless carries a brilliant picture of the lives, fears, anxieties and social customs of the daily lives of ordinary people in a small village in Devonshire. In Cambridge, we get a vivid idea of the humming intellectual life and political and religious upheaval of the time.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Poets

People: Robert Herrick (1591-1674),  Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658),  John Milton (1608-1674)

Places: Cambridge,  England

Times: 1640-1647