Marvell and Liberty

Marvell and Liberty
Author: Martin Dzelzainis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 387
Release: 1999-07-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230376991

Marvell and Liberty is a collection of original essays by leading scholars which treats this major poet in an entirely new light. Uniquely, it gives equal attention to the full range of Marvell's writings. Marvell is a writer deeply implicated in the history of his time, and as the essays in this volume show, also exercised a potent political influence after his death. Marvell and Liberty constitutes a major reassessment of a figure who lived much of his life close to the epicentre of the revolutionary upheavals of the seventeenth century.

The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell

The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell
Author: Derek Hirst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521884179

A set of specially commissioned essays forming a fresh understanding of the poet within his time and place.

Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108843395

This collection reexamines commemoration and memorialization as generative practices illuminating the hidden life of Renaissance death arts.

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Author: Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2011-01-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521874343

This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell
Author: Matthew C. Augustine
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2021-03-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030592871

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 time, considerable space is afforded to reflecting deeply on the modes and meanings of Marvell’s art, redressing the balance of recent biography and criticism which has tended to dwell on the public and political aspects of this literary life at the expense of lyric invention and lyric possibility. Moving beyond the familiar terms of imitation and influence, the book aims at reconstructing an embodied history of reading and writing, acts undertaken within a series of complex physical and social environments, from the Hull Charterhouse to the coffee houses and print shops of Restoration London. Care has been taken to cover the whole of Marvell’s career, in verse and prose, even as the book places the lyric achievement at the centre of its vision.

Lyric Apocalypse

Lyric Apocalypse
Author: Ryan Netzley
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2015-01-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0823263487

What’s new about the apocalypse? Revelation does not allow us to look back after the end and enumerate pivotal turning points. It happens in an immediate encounter with the transformatively new. John Milton’s and Andrew Marvell’s lyrics attempt to render the experience of such an apocalyptic change in the present. In this respect they take seriously the Reformation’s insistence that eschatology is a historical phenomenon. Yet these poets are also reacting to the Regicide, and, as a result, their works explore very modern questions about the nature of events, what it means for a significant historical occasion to happen. Lyric Apocalypse argues that Milton’s and Marvell’s lyrics challenge any retrospective understanding of events, including one built on a theory of revolution. Instead, these poems show that there is no “after” to the apocalypse, that if we are going to talk about change, we should do so in the present, when there is still time to do something about it. For both of these poets, lyric becomes a way to imagine an apocalyptic event that would be both hopeful and new.

Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars

Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars
Author: Nicholas McDowell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008-11-20
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0191608505

This book is about the things which could unite, rather than divide, poets during the English Civil Wars: friendship, patronage relations, literary admiration, and anti-clericalism. The central figure is Andrew Marvell, renowned for his 'ambivalent' allegiance in the late 1640s. Little is known about Marvell's associations in this period, when many of his best-known lyrics were composed. The London literary circle which formed in 1647 under the patronage of the wealthy royalist Thomas Stanley included 'Cavalier' friends of Marvell such as Richard Lovelace but also John Hall, a Parliamentarian propagandist inspired by reading Milton. Marvell is placed in the context of Stanley's impressive circle of friends and their efforts to develop English lyric capability in the absence of traditional court patronage. By recovering the cultural values that were shared by Marvell and the like-minded men with whom he moved in the literary circles of post-war London, we are more likely to find the reasons for their decisions about political allegiance. By focusing on a circle of friends and associates we can also get a sense of how they communicated with and influenced one another through their verse. There are innovative readings of Milton's sonnets and Lovelace's lyric verse, while new light is shed on the origins and audience not only of Marvell's early political poems, including the 'Horatian Ode', but lyrics such as 'To His Coy Mistress'.

The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell

The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell
Author: Martin Dzelzainis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 845
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191055999

The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell is the most comprehensive and informative collection of essays ever assembled dealing with the life and writings of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell (1621-78). Like his friend and colleague John Milton, Marvell is now seen as a dominant figure in the literary landscape of the mid-seventeenth century, producing a stunning oeuvre of poetry and prose either side of the Restoration. In the 1640s and 1650s he was the author of hypercanonical lyrics like 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Garden' as well as three epoch-defining poems about Oliver Cromwell. After 1660 he virtually invented the verse genre of state satire as well as becoming the most influential prose satirist of the day—in the process forging a long-lived reputation as an incorruptible patriot. Although Marvell himself was an intensely private and self-contained character, whose literary, religious, and political commitments are notoriously difficult to discern, the interdisciplinary contributions by an array of experts in the fields of seventeenth-century literature, history, and politics gathered together in the Handbook constitute a decisive step forward in our understanding of him. They offer a fully-rounded account of his life and writings, individual readings of his key works, considerations of his relations with his major contemporaries, and surveys of his rich and varied afterlives. Informed by the wealth of editorial and biographical work on Marvell that has been produced in the last twenty years, the volume is both a conspectus of the state of the art in Marvell studies and the springboard for future research.

Literature and the Arts

Literature and the Arts
Author: Anna Battigelli
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2023-10-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1644533138

The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century English culture. Scenery, machinery, music, dance, and texts transformed one another, both enriching and complicating generic distinctions. Artists were alive to the power of the arts to reflect and shape reality, and their audience was quick to turn to the arts as performative pleasures and critical lenses through which to understand a changing world. This collection's eminent authors discuss estate design, musicalized theater, the visual spectacle of musical performance, stage machinery and set designs, the social uses of painting and singing, drama’s reflection of a transformed military infrastructure, and the arts of memory and of laughter.

The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell

The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell
Author: Patsy Griffin
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780874135619

The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell deals with the specific historical presences and pressures that led Marvell to devise his defenses of Richard Lovelace, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Fairfax, and John Milton. It also focuses on the poetic or formal response that Marvell makes to historical fact, not only in the strategies of his language, but also in the perceptible adjustments such strategies signal for his self-appointed role as poet-apologist.