Andrew Marvell / edited and introduced by Thomas Healy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Healy, Thomas F.

Series:

Longman critical readers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678--Criticism and interpretation.

Marvell, Andrew.

Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

ix, 212 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Longman, 1998.

Summary:

This work brings together ten recent and critically informed essays by leading scholars on one of the most challenging and important 17th 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 20 years, the essays and the authoritative editorial work provide an excellent introduction to Marvell's work.

Contents:

1. The Poet's Time / Warren L. Chernaik

2. Into the Vault / Francis Barker

3. Marvell's Nymph and the Echo of Voice / Jonathan Goldberg

4. The Garden State: Marvell's Poetics of Enclosure / Jonathan Crewe

5. Pastimes with a Court / Leah S. Marcus

6. Andrew Marvell, Oliver Cromwell, and the Horatian Ode / Blair Worden

7. Marvell's Horatian Ode and the Politics of Genre / David Norbrook

8. 'So with more modesty we may be true': Marvell's Poems on Cromwell / Annabel Patterson

9. Virgins and Whores: the Politics of Sexual Misconduct in the 1660s / Steven N. Zwicker

10. Marvell's Sexuality / Paul Hammond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0582219108

0582219078

OCLC:

38468604