Marvell: The Writer in Public Life

ISBN-13: 9780582356757 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 198 str.

Annabel M. Patterson

Opis

This study on Andrew Marvell looks at both his political poetry and his often neglected political prose, revealing his life long commitment to writing about the standards of public life, freedom of conscience and constitutional government.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The portraits and the life; Chapter 2 Experiments in praise; Chapter 3 Devotional poetry; Chapter 4 Experiments in satire; Chapter 5 The pamphlet wars; Chapter 6 The naked truth of history;

O autorze

Annabel Patterson is Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University.