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Angry Heaven's Flame
Angry Heaven’s Flame
Appleton House
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civil war literature
classical literary influence
Counter-Reformation Piety
Country House Poem
Coy Mistress
Created Pleasure
Cromwell's Return
Cromwell’s Return
Double Picture
English poetry civil upheaval analysis
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Forward Youth
Horatian Ode
Lucan's Epic
Lucan’s Epic
Marvell's Poem
Marvell's Speaker
Marvell’s Poem
Miscellaneous Poems
Modus Tollendo Tollens
Mower Poems
national identity studies
Nymph Complaining
Ordo Salutis
Pia Desideria
Poem's Start
Poem’s Start
poetic mythmaking
political verse analysis
Resolved Soul
Royalist Poems
seventeenth-century English poetry
Summer Islands
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409442394
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This monograph studies how, across the Folio of 1681, Marvell's poems engage not merely with different kinds of loss and aspiration, but with experiences of both that were, in mid-seventeenth-century England, disturbingly new and unfamiliar. It particularly examines Marvell's preoccupation with the search for home, and with redefining the homeland, in times of civil upheaval. In doing so it traces his progression from being a poet who plays sophisticatedly with received myth to being one who is a national mythmaker in rivalry with his poetic contemporaries such as Waller and Davenant. Although focusing primarily on poems in the Folio of 1681, this book considers those poems in relation to others from the Marvell canon, including the Latin poems and the satires from the reign of Charles II. It closely considers them as well in relation to verse by poets from the classical past and the European, especially English, present.
A. D. Cousins is Professor of English at Macquarie University, Australia.
