It took a long time for Marvell's fame as a poet to match, and then to eclipse, his celebrity as a politician and defender of civil liberties, but in the present century he has been regarded as perhaps the most important seventeenth-century poet after his friend John Milton. His poems were published postumously in 1681, and there is important additional material in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The present edition, though drawing on the Oxford English Text edition of Margoliouth as revised by Legouis, offers a new recension of the text and, since the poetry sometimes calls for it, unobtrusive explanatory annotation. Marvell's powers as a prose satirist are represented by the first book of "The Rehearsal Transprosed".
- ISBN10 0192813471
- ISBN13 9780192813473
- Publish Date 1 February 1991
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 February 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Oxford Paperbacks
- Edition Annotated edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 379
- Language English