| Andrew Marvell: Loss and Aspiration, Home and Homeland in Miscellaneous Poems Contributor(s): Cousins, A. D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367140276 ISBN-13: 9780367140274 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.4 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.78 lbs) 238 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This monograph studies how, across the Folio of 1681, Marvell's poems engage not merely with different kinds of loss and aspiration, but with experiences of both that were, in mid-seventeenth-century England, disturbingly new and unfamiliar. It particularly examines Marvell's preoccupation with the search for home, and with redefining the homeland, in times of civil upheaval. In doing so it traces his progression from being a poet who plays sophisticatedly with received myth to being one who is a national mythmaker in rivalry with his poetic contemporaries such as Waller and Davenant. Although focusing primarily on poems in the Folio of 1681, this book considers those poems in relation to others from the Marvell canon, including the Latin poems and the satires from the reign of Charles II. It closely considers them as well in relation to verse by poets from the classical past and the European, especially English, present. |