| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages) |
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Literary lives |
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Literary lives (Palgrave (Firm))
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
'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 while providing enough guidance to newcomers to make them feel welcome. Most valuable are the analyses of poems that have received less critical attention than the acknowledged masterpieces, but which are deeply suggestive about the life and character of the man who produced them.' Joanna Picciotto, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA, author of Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England (2010). This book provides an accessible account of the poet and politician Andrew Marvells 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 Marvells 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 Marvells career, in verse and prose, even as the book places the lyric achievement at the centre of its vision |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed July 25, 2022) |
| Subject |
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.
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| SUBJECT |
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678 fast |
| Subject |
Poets, English -- 17th century -- Biography
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Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography
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Poets, English
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030592875 |
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3030592871 |
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