Poems / Marvell ; [selection by Peter Washington].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Washington, Peter.

Series:

Everyman's library pocket poets

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

256 pages ; 17 cm.

Other Title:

Marvell poems

Marvell

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.

Summary:

The great seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell was one of the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as a passionate defender of individual liberty. Today, however, he is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poems, including "The Garden," "The Definition of Love," "Bermudas," "To His Coy Mistress," and the "Horatian Ode" to Cromwell. Marvell's work is marked by extraordinary variety, ranging from incomparable lyric explorations of the inner life to satiric poems on the famous men and important issues of his time-one of the most politically volatile epochs in England's history. From the lover's famous admonition, "Had we but World enough, and Time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime," to the image of the solitary poet "Annihilating all that's made / To a green Thought in a green Shade," Marvell's poetry has earned a permanent place in the canon and in the hearts of poetry lovers.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1400042526

1841597619

OCLC:

55653089