Andrew Marvell

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...

This monograph studies how, across the Folio of 1681, Marvell''s poems engage not merely with different kinds of loss and aspiration, but with experiences of both that were, in mid-seventeenth-century England, disturbingly new and unfamiliar....

<P>Little known as a poet in his own time, Andrew Marvell (1621-78) was a patriotic politician and champion of religious toleration during the Restoration. Although long celebrated for the great love lyric, <EM>To His Coy Mistress</EM>,...

<p>This book provides an accessible account of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell''s life (1621-1678) and of the great events which found reflection in his work and in which he and his writings eventually played a part. At the same...