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The Poems of Andrew Marvell 1/e

Nigel Smith

Published July 2003 by Longman
Copyright 2003, 468 pp., Cloth
ISBN: 0582077702
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$89.95

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Summary

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.

 
 


Features

  • 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.
 
 
 


Author Bio

Professor Nigel Smith is Head of English at Princeton University and regularly writes and broadcasts about 17th century literature.


Table of Contents

Note by the General Editors
Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Journal Abbreviations
Chronological Table of Marvell's Life and Chief Publications
Poems
Poems Published in Print Before 1650
Miscellaneous Poems (1681)
The Mower Poems
Ambassador from the Protector to the Queen of Sweden
The Advice-to-a-Painter and Associated Poems
Verse Satires from the 1670s
Appendices
Bibliography of References Cited
Index of Titles and First Lines
 



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