The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (656 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140424571 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Also included are a chronology, further reading selections, appendices, notes, and indexes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell’s ward, satirist, and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most significant poets of the seventeenth century. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as u
The son of a clergyman, he was educated at Hull Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1653 he became tutor to William Dutton, Cromwell’s ward. His most famous pamphlet, The Rehearsal Transposed, was an attack on Samuel Parker, Archdeacon of Canterbury; it was so controversial that his life was threatened, and when he died suddenly in August 1678 there were rumours that he had been p
"Decent" according to Brian Okabayashi. While Andrew Marvell, was an influential poet in the 17th Century and while his poetry and prose is still a testament to the English language, this collection lacks the emphasis on his excellent shorter poems that use brilliant and sharp language and instead focuses on his lengthy plays that are dry and convoluted. Maybe another version would be better, check his poetry online to decide which volume to buy.. Remains very satisfactory I have used this edition of Marvell's poems for many years in teaching. I also once wrote a brief article about a mistake in it, but for the most part consider the edition very satisfactory. The appearance of *Andrew Marvell: Pastoral and Lyric Poems 1681* (University of Western Australian Press, 2000) has led me to re-appraise Donno's work. The UWA edition is really a selection, and its text is less good than D. Paying Guest said Two hundred to adore each breast. A Marvell is a marvell. I spent several years of my life on this book, and of course his delightful prose satires mostly of clerics, such as his Rehearsal Transpros'd, and I have never regretted a minute of it. The book I wrote on him, This Critical Age: Deliberate Departures from Literary Conventionsin Seventeenth Century English Poetry, was published by the U MI doctorate mill. It's in one German library, at t
Language Notes Text: English, Greek, Latin