Introduction / Nigel Smith. How to make a biography of Andrew Marvell / James Loxley -- Marvell and the literary past / Paul Davis -- Borders and transitions in Marvell's poetry / Matthew C. Augustine -- Thinking of gender / Diane Purkiss -- Marvell and the designs of art / Michael Schoenfeldt -- Andrew Marvell's citizenship / Phil Withington -- The green Marvell / Andrew McRae -- A Cromwellian centre? / Joad Raymond -- The poet's religion / John Spurr -- Adversarial Marvell / Nicholas von Maltzahn -- How to make a biography of Andrew Marvell / Nigel Smith.
Summary:
Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine Marvell's work in the contexts of Restoration politics and religion and of the seventeenth-century publishing world in both manuscript and print.--Book jacket.
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