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  • Heaven Taken by Storm: Christopher Hill, Andrew Marvell and the Dissenting Tradition

    Heaven Taken by Storm: Christopher Hill, Andrew Marvell and the Dissenting Tradition

    The first annual Christopher Hill Memorial Lecture was given on November 3rd 2018 in Newark and 27th March 2019 in London by Professor Justin Champion, and titled "Heaven Taken by Storm: Christopher Hill, Andrew Marvell and the Dissenting Tradition". In this, the text of the lecture, Champion defends Christopher Hill's Marxist method against its revisionist detractors and seeks to extend Hill's reading of Andew Marvell, particularly his reflections on Marvell's topical satires in verse and prose of the Restoration.