The aim of this book is to present through commentary and annotation, a full historical and literary context to Marvell's poetry and it does so in its comprehensive and accurately balanced scholarship.
For in all experience , as far as I can remember , they have never been forward to save the Prince that labour . If they had , there would have been no Wickliffe , 574 no Husse , 575 no Luther376 in History .
From the passionately erotic “To His Coy Mistress” to the astutely political Cromwellian poems and the profoundly spiritual “On a Drop of Dew,” in which he considers the nature of the soul, these works are masterpieces of clarity ...
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contempoprary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.
Although focusing primarily on poems in the Folio of 1681, this book considers those poems in relation to others from the Marvell canon, including the Latin poems and the satires from the reign of Charles II. It closely considers them as ...
Michael Craze, The Life and Lyrics of Andrew Marvell (New York: Macmillan, 1979), 277. 67. John Dixon Hunt, Andrew Marvell: His ... Joan Faust, Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between (Newark: University of Delaware Press, ...
John Lawson, ATown Grammar School Through Six Centuries (1963), Hull, p83. 13. Mr SmirkeorThe Divinein Mode (1676), Grosart,Vol.IV,p15. 14. Samuel Parker, A Reproof,p227. 15. The Rehearsal, p41. 16. L.2. 17. Wood, pp230–2. 18. John Cook ...
Pollard identified at Dublin a variant of Edition A, which was identical with A except for gatherings F and H. In gathering F, as Pollard showed, the inner forms are identical with A, and therefore were printed from the original forms; ...
This new study of Andrew Marvell offers a state-of-the-art guide to one of the most intriguing and elusive poets of the seventeenth century.
An enigmatic men, whose poems balance opposing principles-Royalism and Republicanism, spirituality and sexuality.