Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of immense lyric talent and political importance. The book situates these writings and this writer within the patronage networks and political upheavals of mid seventeenth-century England. Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker track Marvell's negotiations among personalities and events; explores his idealizations, attachments, and
subversions, and speculate on the meaning of the narratives that he told of himself within his writings - what they call his 'imagined life'. Hirst and Zwicker draw the figure of an imagined life from the repeated traces Marvell left of lyric yearning and satiric anger, and suggest how these were rooted both in the
body and in the imagination.
The book sheds new light on some of Marvell's most familiar poems - 'Upon Appleton House', 'The Garden',' To His Coy Mistress', and 'Horatian Ode' - but at its centre is an extended reading of Marvell's 'The unfortunate Lover', his least familiar and surely most mysterious lyric, and his most sustained narrative of the self. By attending to the lyric, the polemical, and the parliamentary careers together, this book offers a reading, for the first time, of Marvell and his writings as an
interpretable whole.
- ISBN10 1306411467
- ISBN13 9781306411462
- Publish Date 1 January 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press, USA
- Format eBook
- Pages 214
- Language English