Andrew Marvell : a literary life

Andrew Marvell : a literary life / Matthew C. Augustine.

'Matthew C. Augustine has managed to achieve, if not the impossible, then something vanishingly rare in the genre of literary biography. In tracing the frequently intricate links between Marvells writings and their contexts, he engages (and often challenges) readers familiar with the terrain wh...

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Main Author: Augustine, Matthew C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Series:Literary lives (Palgrave (Firm))
Subjects:
Marvell, Andrew, > 1621-1678.
Marvell, Andrew, > 1621-1678
1600-1699
Poets, English > 17th century > Biography.
Poets, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Biography.
Poets, English
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on the Text
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1: Introduction: A Literary Life?
  • References
  • 2: Andreae Filiae: East Riding, Yorkshire, 1621-1633
  • England in the 1620s
  • 'A Most Excellent Preacher': Rev. Marvell and Life in the Charterhouse
  • Hull Grammar School and the Origins of Marvell's 'Echoing Song'
  • Coda: The Master's Birch
  • References
  • 3: In loco parentis: Cambridge, 1633-1641
  • Going Down to Cambridge
  • Dialectic Teaching and the Cambridge Arts Course
  • Dialogues and Debates
  • Body and Soul
  • Maturity and Loss
  • References
  • 4: 'Our wits have drawn th'infection of our times': London and the Continent, 1641-1650
  • In Want of Employment
  • The Coming of War: England in the 1640s
  • The Grand Tour
  • Return to England and the Second Civil War
  • Royalist Verse and the Stanley Circle
  • The Consolations of Art
  • References
  • 5: 'Some great prelate of the grove': London and Nun Appleton, Yorkshire, 1650-1652
  • The Forward Youth That Would Appear
  • A Staggering Reversal?: 'Tom May's Death'
  • Paradise's Only Map: Reading 'Upon Appleton House'
  • References
  • 6: 'With my most humble service': England and the Continent, 1652-1659
  • The Mower Poems
  • Cromwellian Service
  • 'The First Anniversary'
  • 'A Notable English Italo-Machavillian'
  • Secretary Marvell
  • References
  • 7: 'His anger reached that rage which passed his art': England, the Netherlands, and the Baltic, 1659-1667
  • The Collapse of the Commonwealth and the Restoration of Monarchy
  • MP, Committee-Man, and Diplomat
  • Plague, Fire, and War: Marvell's Instructions to a Painter
  • References
  • 8: 'The interest and happiness of the king and kingdom': London, 1667-1678
  • The Fall of Clarendon
  • Comprehension and Indulgence
  • The Rehearsal Transpros'd
  • 'Your Dear Friend Mr Milton'
  • An Account of the Growth of Popery and the Birth of Whig Legend
  • Life in Death
  • References
  • Index

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