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Prose Works of Andrew Marvell: Volume 1, 1672-1673
Contributor(s): Marvell, Andrew (Author), Patterson, Annabel (Editor), Dzelzainis, Martin (Editor)
ISBN: 0300099355     ISBN-13: 9780300099355
Publisher: Yale University Press
OUR PRICE:   $99.99  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2003
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Annotation: Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is best known today as the author of a handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose interventions in the major issues of the Restoration, religious toleration, and what he called "arbitrary" as distinct from parliamentary government. This is the first modern edition of all Marvell's prose pamphlets, complete with introductions and annotation explaining the historical context. Four major scholars of the Restoration era have collaborated to produce this truly Anglo-American edition. From the Rehearsal Transpros'd, a serio-comic best-seller which appeared with tacit permission from Charles II himself, through the documentary Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government, Marvell established himself not only as a model of liberal thought for the eighteenth century but also as an irresistible new voice in political polemic, wittier, more literary, and hence more readable than his contemporaries.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 828.408
LCCN: 2003050055
Series: Prose Works of Andrew Marvell S
Physical Information: 1.32" H x 6.52" W x 9.54" (1.90 lbs) 544 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is best known today as the author of a handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose interventions in the major issues of the Restoration, religious toleration, and what he called "arbitrary" as distinct from parliamentary government. This is the first modern edition of all Marvell's prose pamphlets, complete with introductions and annotation explaining the historical context. Four major scholars of the Restoration era have collaborated to produce this truly Anglo-American edition.
From the Rehearsal Transpros'd, a serio-comic best-seller which appeared with tacit permission from Charles II himself, through the documentary Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government, Marvell established himself not only as a model of liberal thought for the eighteenth century but also as an irresistible new voice in political polemic, wittier, more literary, and hence more readable than his contemporaries.