The Acts of Oblivion

The Acts of Oblivion

Paul Batchelor

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FörlagCarcanet Poetry
ISBN9781800172005

The 'Acts of Oblivion' were a series of seventeenth-century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends — pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record — they forced the people to forget. Against such injunctions, Paul Batchelor'