The Complete Poems

Marvell, Andrew and George deF. Lord:

ISBN 10: 1857151534 / ISBN 13: 9781857151534

Published by Alfred A. Knopf 03.1993., 1993

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320 Seiten Fresh and clean hardcover copy in good condition with original dustjacket. Sauberes und frisches Hardcover-Exemplar in gutem Zustand mit Original-Schutzumschlag. Contents: Introduction - A Note on the Text - Select Bibliography - Chronology - LYRIC POEMS - THE CROMWELL ERA - THE ERA OF CHARLES II - POETS AND HEROES - POEMS IN LATIN AND GREEK - POEMS OF DOUBTFUL AUTHORSHIP ISBN 9781857151534 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1042.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Poems
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf 03.1993.
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857151534
• ISBN 13: 9781857151534
• Binding: , Hardcover/Pappeinband
• Edition: (Everyman's Library CLASSICS).
• Condition: Gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1042 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Varia

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Synopsis

The wittiest and yet most accessible writing in mid-seventeeth-century England, Andrew Marvell's poetry is both passionate and brillant, erotic and comic, cool courtly and seductive. The friend. admirer and supporter of Milton, Marvell was also a very great poet in his own right. Described by a contemporary as 'of middling stature, pretty strong-set, of roundish face, cherry-cheeked, hazel-eyed, brown-haired he was a man of the people and a brillant intellectual. The fact that he was both a republican and the admired favourite of Charles II indicates the breadth of his sympathies.

About the Author

Marvell, Andrew (1621--78), was one of the English Metaphysical Poets. Educated at Cambridge, he worked as a clerk, traveled abroad, and returned to serve as tutor to Lord Fairfax's daughter in Yorkshire. In 1657 he was appointed John Milton's assistant in the Latin secretaryship, and in 1659 he was elected to Parliament, where he served until his death. He was one of the chief wits and satirists of his time as well as being a Puritan and a public defender of individual liberty. Today, however, he is known chiefly for his brilliant lyric poetry, which includes The Garden, The Definition of Love, Bermudas, and To His Coy Mistress, and for his Horatian Ode to Cromwell.