Andrew Marvell

Marvell, Andrew - märˈvəl, 1621–78, one of the English metaphysical poets. Educated at Cambridge, he worked as a clerk, traveled abroad, and returned to serve as tutor to Lord Fairfax's daughter in Yorkshire. In 1657 he was appointed John Milton's assistant in the Latin secretaryship, and in 1659 he was elected to Parliament, where he served until his death. He was one Read More...

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Andrew Marvell
by V. Sackville-West. 66 pgs.

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The Poems & Letters of Andrew Marvell (includes "To His Coy Mistress" and "An Horation Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland")
by H. M. Margoliouth, Andrew Marvell. 350 pgs.

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Preface

Contents of Volume I

Illustrations

Poems Published Before 1650

Miscellaneous Poems·

A Dialogue Between The Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure.

Satires Of the Reign Of Charles II

Commentary General Note on the Text

Notes

Appendix

Index of Poems and Epitaphs

Index of First Lines

Index of Persons
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Andrew Marvell, the Critical Heritage
by Elizabeth Story Donno. 386 pgs.

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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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General Editor's Preface

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Polemicist in Prose: Contemporary and Later Comments

1: Richard Leigh on the Rehearsal Transpros'd

2: Samuel Parker's First Response

3: Edmund Hickeringill on the Rehearsal Transpros'd

4: [? Joseph Glanvill] on the Rehearsal Transpros'd

5: An Anonymous Comment on the Author of the Rehearsal Transpros'd

6: Rochester on the Parker Controversy

7: Robert Mcward Comments on Parker and Marvell

8: Thomas Long Comments on the Transproser

9: Bishop Burnet on the Parker Controversy

10: Anthony à Wood on the Parker Controversy

11: Dean Swift's Allusion to the Controversy

12: Isaac Disraeli on the Parker Controversy

13: Bishop Croft's Letter to Marvell

14: An Anonymous Poetic Tribute to Marvell's Character

15: W. P. Ker on the Superiority of Mr. Smirke

16: An Anonymous Notice from a Letter from Amsterdam

17: Sir Roger L'estrange on the Growth of Popery

18: [? Marchamont Nedham] on the Author of the Growth of Popery

19: An Anonymous Tribute on His Excellent Friend

20: Tell-Truth's Comment on Marvell

21: John Dryden's Comments

22: Bishop Parker on the Growth of Popery and the 'First Anniversary'

23: A Further Comment on the Growth of Popery

24: Three Eighteenth-Century Historians Comment

25: Henry Rogers on Marvell's Defense of Howe

26: Dr John Brown on Marvell

Satirist, Patriot, and Emergent Poet

27: Milton's Recommendation of Marvell

28: John Aubrey's Comments

29: James Yonge, from His Journal

30: Nahum Tate, an Allusion

31: Preface to Poems on Affairs of State

32: Defoe on Satirical Poetry

33: Thomas Cooke on the Life and Writings

34: James Parsons on 'Eyes and Tears'

35: Voltaire on in Eandem [effigiem] Reginae Sueciae Transmissam

36: William Mason, from the Ode 'To Independency'

37: Charles Churchill on Satiric Poetry

38: Captain Edward Thompson on Marvell's Works

39: John Aikin on Marvell

40: William Wordsworth's Sonnet

41: Three Political Comparisons

Poet and Prose Writer

42: William Lisle Bowles, a Note on Two Poems

43: Thomas Campbell on Marvell

44: Charles Lamb's Comments

45: William Hazlitt on the Poetry

46: Leigh Hunt's Multiple Comments

47: A Two-Part Anonymous Account of Marvell

47: A Two-Part Anonymous Account of Marvell

48: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Comments

49: John Clare, from a Letter to H. F. Cary

50: John Dove, from the Life of Andrew Marvell

51: Three Anonymous Reviews of Dove's Life

52: Hartley Coleridge from the Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire

53: Samuel Carter Hall on the Poetry

54: Edgar Allan Poe Comments

55: Robert Chambers on Marvell

56: From the Penny Cyclopaedia

57: Henry Rogers's Observations on Marvell

58: George L. Craik's Observations on Marvell

59: A Portrait of the Poet and Prose Writer

60: John Greenleaf Whittier on Marvell

61: Mrs S. C. Hall on Marvell

62: Mary Russell Mitford, from Recollections of a Literary Life

63: An Anonymous Notice on the 'Horatian Ode' and 'Eyes and Tears'

64: James Russell Lowell's Observations on Marvell's Poetry

65: George Dawson, from Biographical Lectures

66: George Gilfillan Comments on Marvell

67: Matthew Arnold on the 'Horatian Ode'

68: Herman Merivale's Comments on the Political Poetry

69: Sainte Beuve on the 'Horatian Ode'

70: Archbishop Trench's Comments on 'Eyes and Tears, ’ 'Horatian Ode, ’ and 'On a Drop of Dew'

71: John Ormsby's Essay from the Cornhill Magazine

72: James Russell Lowell on Two of the Cromwell Poems

73: Charles Cowden Clarke on Marvell

74: Edward Fitzgerald's Comments on Two Poems

75: W. D. Christie's Reviews of Grosart's Edition

76: An American Divine Comments

77: Sir Edmund Gosse on the Garden Poetry

78: Alfred Lord Tennyson's Comments

Poetic Reassessment

79: A. C. Benson on Marvell

80: J. Stuart's Review of Marvell in the Muses' Library Series

81: Sir E. K. Chambers's Review of Marvell in the Muses' Library Series

82: Richard Garnett on Marvell

83: An Anonymous Comment on the Poetry

84: Alice Meynell's Comments on Marvell

85: George Saintsbury's Comments on Marvell

86: H. C. Beeching on the Lyrics

87: An Anonymous Review Article on Marvell's Prose Style

88: W. J. Courthope on 'The First Anniversary'

89: Stephen Gwynn on the Puritanism of the Poet

90: Augustine Birrell on Marvell

91: Three Unsigned Reviews of Birrell's Andrew Marvell

92: A Poet's Review of Birrell's Edition

93: Albert F. Sieveking on Garden Poetry

94: Emile Legouis Comments on 'The Death of O. C'

95: Edward B. Reed on Marvell's Lyrics

96: Francis L. Bickley on the Quality of Marvell's Poetry

97: Isaac Rosenberg Comments on 'To His Coy Mistress'

98: A. Glutton-Brock on Marvell and Vaughan

99: H. M. Margoliouth on Marvell and His Contemporaries

100: H. J. Massingham on Marvell's Poetry

101: Sir Herbert Grierson on the Metaphysical Lyric

102: Cyril Falls on the Tercentenary of Marvell's Birth

103: T. S. Eliot on the Tercentenary of Marvell's Birth

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Andrew Marvell
by John Press. 44 pgs.

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Andrew Marvell

A Select Bibliography
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Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain
by David J. Baker. 230 pgs.

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Fusing historiography with literary criticism, Between Nations produces an array of unexpected readings of early modern texts. Starting from the premise that England has never been able to emerge or define itself in isolation from its neighbors on the British Isles, this book places Renaissance England and its literature at a meeting of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh histories. It ranges from the late sixteenth through the late seventeenth centuries and deals with the "reigns" of three monarchs and one regicide - those of Elizabeth I, James I, Charles II, and Oliver Cromwell. However, it shifts the domain they ruled from the customary center into interactions between England and the other British polities. The author argues that England was able to develop into what we call a "nation" only in and by means of its relations with the other proto-"nations" that it was often also suppressing. Among the authors who served one or more of the four English rulers are Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marvell, who are studied here in the way they responded to the complexities of British history that encompassed their "nation". They not only participated in nation building/destroying, but their works are shown often to be meditations on that process and their own roles in the process.

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

Chapter I Imagining Britain: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S 'HENRY V'

Chapter 2 Border Crossings: EDMUND SPENSER'S 'A VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF IRELAND'

Chapter 3 British Poetics Andrew Marvell's "An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" and "The Loyal Scot"

Coda

Reference Matter

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell
by Barbara L. Estrin. 345 pgs.

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Note on Editions

Introduction Gender Performance and Genre Slippage

Petrarch

Like a Man Who Thinks and Weeps and Writes Laura as Mercury to Petrarch's Battus

Wyatt

Taking Bread Wyatt's Revenge in the Lyrics and Sustenance in the Psalms

Liking This Telling Wyatt's Feelings

Donne

Small Change Defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian Poetics

Sylvia Transformed Returning Donne's Gifts

A Pregnant Bank" Contracting and Abstracting the "You" in Donne's "A Valediction of My Name in the Window" and "Elegy: Change

Marvell

"Busie Companies of Men" Appropriations of Female Power in "Damon the Mower" and "The Gallery"

Preparing for Longer Flight Marvell's Nymph and the Revenge of Silence

A-Mazing and A-Musing After the Garden in "Appleton House"

Musing Afterward

Notes

Index

About the Author
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Marvell's Metamorphic 'Fleckno', in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Joan Hartwig. 42 pgs.

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John Donne and the Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Poets ("Marvell's Songs of Innocence and Experience" begins on p. 163)
by Harold Bloom. 267 pgs.

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-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

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Modern Critical Views

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Editor's Note

Introduction

John Freccero Donne's Compass Image

John Hollander Donne and the Limits of Lyric

William Kerrigan the Fearful Accommodations of John Donne

Claudia Brodsky Donne: The Imaging of the Logical Conceit

Thomas R. Whitaker Herrick and the Fruits of the Garden

Stanley E. Fish Letting Go: The Dialectic of the Self in Herbert's Poetry

Helen Vendler Alternatives: The Reinvented Poem

A. R. Cirillo Crashaw's "Epiphany Hymn": The Dawn of Christian Time

Louis Martz Henry Vaughan

Ruth Nevo Marvell's "Songs of Innocence and Experience"

Harry Berger, Jr. Marvell's "Upon Appleton House": An Interpretation

Geoffrey Hartman "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun": A Brief Allegory

Barbara K. Lewalski Thomas Traherne: Naked Truth, Transparent Words, and the Renunciation of Metaphor

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index
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Marvell's Dialogized Nymph, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Daniel Jaeckle. 15 pgs.

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Metaphysical to Augustan: Studies in Tone and Sensibility in the Seventeenth Century (Chap. 6 "The Poetry of Andrew Marvell")
by Geoffrey Walton. 151 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

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I Seventeenth-Century Ideas of Wit: An Introductory Chapter

The Tone Of Ben Jonson's Poetry

3 Abraham Cowley And the Decline Of Metaphysical Poetry

4 Abraham Cowley And the Pindarique Ode

5 Cowley's Essays In Verse and Prose And the Transition to Neo-Classicism

6 The Poetry Of Andrew Marvell

The Poetry Of John Norris of Bemerton: A Plea for Recognition

Index
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English Lyric Poetry: The Early Seventeenth Century (Chap. 9 "Andrew Marvell: Here at the Fountain’s Sliding Foot")
by Jonathan F. S. Post. 324 pgs.

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English Lyric Poetry is a comprehensive reassessment of lyric poetry of the early seventeenth century. The study is directed at both beginning and more advanced students of literature, and responds to more specialised scholarly inquiries pursued of late in relation to specific poets. This extremely lucid and elegantly written book avoids the limitations of much recent criticism. Donne, Jonson, the Spenserians, Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Vaughan, as well as many non-canonical and women poets, all receive sustained, fresh, and detailed analysis. Jonathan Post seeks to assimilate many of the post-New Critical theoretical concerns with readings of the major and minor, male and female, authors of the period.

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Foreword

Acknowledgements

A Note on Sources and Spelling

1: Irremediably Donne

2: Ben Jonson and the Art of Inclusion

3: Patriotic and Popular Poets

4: Caroline Amusements

5: Substance and Style in George Herbert’s the Temple

6: The Once and Future Poet

7: Arenas of Retreat

8: From Wroth to Philips

9: Andrew Marvell

Notes

Index
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The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry (includes "Authoring the Boundary: Allegory, Irony, and the Rebus in Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House'")
by Marshall Grossman. 349 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

Part One: Lasso, Che Son? Che Fui?

Chapter 1: Literary Forms and Historical Consciousness in Renaissance Poetry

Chapter 2: The Subject of Narrative and the Rhetoric of the Self

Chapter 3: Augustine and the Rhetoric of the Christian Ego

Part Two

Chapter 4: Spenser and the Metonymies of Virtue: a Case of History

Chapter 5: Refiguring the Remains of the World in Donne's Anniversaries: Absolute Monuments to Absolute Knowledge

Chapter 6: Authoring the Boundary: Allegory, Irony, and the Rebus In Marvell's "Upon Appleton House"

Chapter 7: Experience, Negation, and the Genders of Time: Milton and the Question of Woman

Epilogue: The Hyphen in the Mouth of Modernity

Notes

Index
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England Deflowered and Unmanned: The Sexual Image of Politics in Marvell's "Last Instructions", in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Barbara Riebling. 21 pgs.

Journal Article
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Lady State's First Two Sittings: Marvell's Satiric Canon, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Annabel Patterson. 18 pgs.

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The Image of Manhood in Early Modern Literature: Viewing the Male (includes "A Garden of Desire, A Meadow of Decay: Masculine Identity Crisis in Marvell's Mower Power")
by Andrew P. Williams. 196 pgs.

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The unique social history of the early modern period in England marked a crucial moment in the cultural conception and representation of masculinity. This volume explores the various strategies used by 17th- and 18th-century writers to portray the masculine identity. Included are chapters on such authors as Thomas Carew, Andrew Marvell, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, John Dryden, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson. Together, the expert contributors offer a broad perspective on the social and political dynamics of early modern masculinity. Though incorporating a variety of critical approaches, the contributors all examine the inherent anxiety and problems associated with masculinity and its representation. The chapters demonstrate how significant literary texts of the period worked to provide not only idealized images of the masculine but also contesting ones. Thus the volume shows that the literary representation of masculinity in the early modern period was a dynamic and evolving process.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Masculine Disaffection and Misogynistic Displacement in Carew's Love Lyrics

A Garden of Desire, A Meadow of Decay: Masculine Identity Crisis in Marvell's Mower Poems

"The blushing shame of souldiers": The Eroticism of Heroic Masculinity in John Fletcher's Bonduca

A place privileged to do men wrong": The Anxious Masculinity of The Maid's Tragedy

Manliness and Misogyny in Dryden's Aeneid

Soft Women and Softer Men: The Libertine Maintenance of Masculine Identity

Displacing Masculinity: Edward Kynaston and the Politics of Effeminacy

Godly Manliness: Defoe's Good Men in Bad Times

Clarissa's "Man of Violence" and Grandison's "Truly Good Man": Masculine Homogeneity in Richardson

Selected Bibliography

Index

Contributors
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Puritanism and Revolution: Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Century (includes "Society and Andrew Marvell")
by Christopher Hill. 404 pgs.

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PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

PART I: Movements and Men

1: Recent Interpretations of the Civil War

2: Social and Economic Consequences of the Henrician Reformation

3: The Norman Yoke

4: The English Revolution and the Brotherhood of Man

5: The Agrarian Legislation of the Revolution

PART II: Men and Movements

6: Lord Clarendon and the Puritan Revolution

7: William Perkins and the Poor

8: The Political Sermons of John Preston

9: Thomas Hobbes and the Revolution in Political Thought

10: James Harrington and the People

11: The Mad Hatter

12: John Mason and the End of the World

13: Society and Andrew Marvell

14: Clarissa Harlowe and Her Times

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