"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 preoccu...

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1. Verfasser:	Cousins, Anthony D. 1950- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London and New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2016
Schlagworte:	Marvell, Andrew > 1621-1678 > Criticism and interpretation Marvell, Andrew > 1621-1678 Loss (Psychology) in literature Ambition in literature Home in literature Homelessness in literature Lyrik
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Zusammenfassung:	"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" ...
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	237 Seiten
ISBN:	9781409442394