Andrew Marvell : a literary life / Matthew C. Augustine.
Augustine, Matthew C.
2021
PR3546 .A53 2021
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Title
Andrew Marvell : a literary life / Matthew C. Augustine.
Author
Augustine, Matthew C.
ISBN
9783030592875 (electronic bk.)
3030592871 (electronic bk.)
9783030592868
3030592863
9783030592899 (paperback)
3030592898 (paperback)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59287-5
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-59287-5 doi
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PR3546 .A53 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
821.4
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Literary lives (Palgrave (Firm))
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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

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

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

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

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