Marvell and Milton poets in a fallen world Warren Chernaik

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chernaik, Warren L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"Both John Milton and Andrew Marvell have been revaluated in recent years. Yet this is the first sustained scholarly work to compare the two great seventeenth-century poets. In his new book, which stands as the culmination of a distinguished academic career, Warren Chernaik examines the relationship of the two writers and their complex responses to their troubled times. The poets were close friends, yet the trajectory of their careers and their posthumous reputations differed significantly. As well as taking an active part in the major political and religious upheavals of their times, both poets engaged seriously with classical, Christian and humanist thought. Combining close readings of their poetry and prose with detailed consideration of historical and intellectual context, Chernaik sheds fresh light on the enduring works of poets whose words still resonate strongly with today's readers"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Marvell, Milton, and ‘these tumultuous times’

Friends and readers : Donne, Milton, and Marvell

Milton’s ‘fit audience’

Marvell and the storms of time

Lesser and greater worlds

The rhetoric of defence in Marvell and Milton

Service and servitude in Herbert, Milton, and Marvell

Paradise’s only map : Marvell and the fall

Marvell’s religious poems : Puritanism, Platonism, literary tradition

Religious belief and the politics of conscience : Marvell and Milton

Postscript : ‘that happy garden-state’

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed May 26, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Chernaik, Warren L. Marvell and Milton

ISBN:

9781009735681

1009735683

OCLC:

1565176902

Access Restriction:

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