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Andrew Marvell Loss and aspiration, home and homeland in Miscellaneous Poems
By A. D. Cousins
Copyright 2016
238 Pages
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Routledge
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246 Pages
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The mower poems; Lovers, gardens, paradise: the nymph and the coy mistress; Lovers, gardens, paradise: Bermudas and The Garden; The religious verse; The royalist poems and An Horatian Ode; Home and homeland in Upon Appleton House, To My Lord Fairfax; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.
Biography
A. D. Cousins is Professor of English at Macquarie University, Australia.
"A.D. Cousins's monograph on Andrew Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems (1681) makes a fresh and detailed contribution to our understanding of this enigmatic poet's verse. ... Cousins's book is an exemplary complement to this archival plenitude because it delivers a convincing thesis by way of embedding the poems in a dynamic mosaic of literary tropes and traditions reaching from the 1650s back to antiquity." -- Liam E. Semler, The University of Sydney
