The latest edition to the Longman Annotated English Poets series is a complete works of the seventeenth century poet, Andrew Marvell. Marvell's poetry is renowned for its irony, subtlety and allusiveness and Nigel Smith shows how such literary qualities were developed and the various ways in which the complexity of meanings may be interpreted.

This edition presents an authoritative text of Marvell's poetry together with the fullest account yet published of matters of dating, publication, historical context, sources and critical reception, contained in a headnote for each poem.

This book is the first complete edition of Marvell's verse for thirty years, by far the most knowledgeable edition and an indispensable guide to the study of his verse.

• Authoritative text with a complete list of the textual variants of early editions of Marvell's work.
• Full headnotes explaining dating, publication details, historical context, sources and summaries.
• Extensive footnote annotations, detailing word definitions, sources, allusions, textual variants and context information.