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The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell (Hardcover)
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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.
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