1st Edition

Marvell The Writer in Public Life

By Annabel M. Patterson Copyright 2000
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Marvell: The Writer in Public Life is substantially revised from Professor Patterson's well received 1978 study, including a new introduction and new chapter on Marvell and secret history. This important study provides an up to date perspective on a writer still thought of merely as the author of lyric and pastoral poems. It looks at both Marvell's political poetry and his often neglected... Read more
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;

Biography

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