Andrew Marvell, orphan of the hurricane / Derek Hirst and Steven N. Zwicker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirst, Derek.

Contributor:

Zwicker, Steven N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Marvell, Andrew.

Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvi, 197 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of immense lyric talent and political importance. The book situates the writer and his writings within the patronage networks and political upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England. Derek Hirst and Steven N. Zwicker track Marvell's negotiations among personalities and events; explore his idealizations, attachments, and subversions; and speculate on the meaning of the narrative that he told of himself within his writings-what they call his 'imagined life.' Hirst and Zwicker draw the figure of an imagined life from the repeated traces Marvell left of lyric yearning and satiric anger, and suggest how these were rooted both in the body and in the imagination.

The book sheds new light on some of Marvell's most familiar poems-'Upon Appleton House', 'The Garden', 'To His Coy Mistress', and 'Horatian Ode'-but at is centre is an extended reading of Marvell's 'The Unfortunate Lover', his least familiar and surely most mysterious lyric, and his most sustained narrative of the self. By attending to the lyric, the polemical, and the parliamentary careers together, this book offers a reading, for the first time, of Marvell and his writings as an interpretable whole. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Work of Service 9

2 Toils of Patriarchy 41

3 Wounds of Desire 74

4 Secrecies and Disclosures 103

5 Into the World 128.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [178]-190) and index.

ISBN:

9780199655373

0199655375

OCLC:

779244329