Andrew Marvell is an intriguing personality, variously identified as a patriot & a spy, a conspirator, closet homosexual, father of the liberal tradition, incendiary satirical pamphleteer & freethinker.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The intention throughout is to enhance understanding and appreciation, without being exhaustive. The major portion of the volume, in both importance and size, is ‘A Marvell Dictionary’.
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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.
There is, of course, a technical side to Marvell's exploration and exposition of the liminal; indeed questions of ... those slippery contests of binaries and oppo— sitions staged in pastoral dialogues and in philosophical lyrics, ...
Andrew Marvell
Series Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts Twaynes United States...
An enigmatic men, whose poems balance opposing principles-Royalism and Republicanism, spirituality and sexuality.