Andrew Marvell brings together ten recent and critically informed essays by leading scholars on one of the most challenging and important seventeenth-century poets. The essays examine Marvell's poems, from lyrics, such as 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn', to celebrations of Cromwell and Republican Civil War culture and his biting Restoration satires. Representing the most significant critical trends in Marvell criticism over the last twenty years, the essays and the authoritative editorial work provide an excellent introduction to Marvell's work. Students of Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature, English Civil War writing, and seventeenth-century social and cultural history will find this collection a useful guide to helping them appreciate and understand Marvell's poetry.
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 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.
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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, ...
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...
Short Memorials of Thomas Lord Fairfax, Written by Himself. London. Friedman, Donald. 1970. ... Grummitt, Elaine J. 2000. Heraldic Imagery in Seventeenth-Century English ... 'Black Tom': Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution.
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, ...