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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This reference guide provides a comprehensive exploration of the works and life of this much-studied 17th-century English poet and political satirist.It is a compendium of useful information for any reader of Marvell, especially the reader who requires information that is usually not easily accessible to the non-specialist. Citations, a bibliography, and suggestions for further research direct and enhance the coverage, and a chronology presents an overview of Marvell's life and works.The major portion of the volume is a dictionary of alphabetically arranged entries that identify:
important persons and places linked with Marvell's life and works; characters, allusions, ideas, and concepts in his work and his historical period; words and phrases of particular importance in the texts or which might pose particular problems to the modern reader; numerous cross references help orient the reader throughout.The format has been designed for maximum clarity and ease of reading; modern spelling and punctuation are used; other works or writers that were relevant to or had influence on Marvell; literary terms important to Marvell's work. Bibliography ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Marvell's oeuvre must be one of the smallest of any major English poet, but that he is a major poet is no longer contested. Very little is known of his life: he was born in 1621, in Yorkshire; he tutored the daughter of the parliamentarian general Thomas Fairfax at Nun Appleton; he spent some time abroad; he was a friend of Milton's and MP for Hull 1659-1677. His poems range from the public "An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland", perhaps the gre atest political poem in English, to the exquisite lyricism of "The Mower to the Glow-worms". ... Read more

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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. Professor Annabel Patterson, known for her ability to make serious scholarship engaging, provides comprehensive introductions to Marvell's different self-representations, and places the most famous poems, such as The Garden and Horatian Ode, in the dialectic they lose when read only in anthologies. ... Read more

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In 1654, Andrew Marvell celebrated England's political and imperial quest for 'other worlds' in search of still more multiple worlds. Marvell's enthusiastic, nationalist vision of multiple worlds is strikingly appropriate to his own poetry which presents the reader with different worlds ofexperience, a range of poetic genres, themes and ideas. Marvell's idea of multiple worlds is used as the organising device for The Poetry of Andrew Marvell which provides a study of a representative selection of Marvell's lyrical poetry. The poems are subjected to a range of critical approaches,including traditional close reading, historical and feminist analyses, intended to introduce the reader to his poetry and to some of the cross-currents of contemporary criticism. ... Read more