The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell: A Study of Marvell and His Relation to Lovelace, Fairfax, Cromwell, and Milton

Patsy Griffin

ISBN 10: 0874135613 / ISBN 13: 9780874135619

Published by University of Delaware Press, 1995

About this Item

F/F/1st ed./signed. The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell: A Study of Marvell and His Relation to Lovelace, Fairfac, Cromwell, and Milton grew out the author's dissertation. Griffin is an assistant professor of English at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Ga. This copy, which is in Fine Condition, is a signed First Edition. 216 pages with an extensive bibliography and many chapter notes. Book and Dust jacket are in As New Condition, and the jacket has been covered with a mylar sleeve. Author has signed on half title page,"With love and gratitude to Maris and Laughin,---Patsy".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell: A Study of Marvell and His Relation to Lovelace, Fairfax, Cromwell, and Milton
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874135613
• ISBN 13: 9780874135619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author on Half Title
• Seller catalogs:
  • "Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • Signed By Author

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Synopsis

The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell deals with the specific historical presences and pressures that led Marvell to devise his defenses of Richard Lovelace, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Fairfax, and John Milton. It also focuses on the poetic or formal response that Marvell makes to historical fact, not only in the strategies of his language, but also in the perceptible adjustments such strategies signal for his self-appointed role as poet-apologist.
Marvell's evolving notion of his own role as poet is exhibited through his "reformation" of certain images in which an ultimate consistent development emerges that culminates in not just his rejection of what may be called the Edenic impulse, but a denial of its authenticity as such and an endorsement of destined progression. Both his occasional and thematic poetry may be seen for the most part as a response to the regicide, to the Interregnum, and perhaps most important, to his associations with four major figures of the time - Lovelace, Fairfax, Cromwell, and Milton.

About the Author

Patsy Griffin is an assistant professor of English at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Ga.