Förlagets beskrivning
Andrew Marvell (1621-78) produced a comparatively small but quite
exceptional body of verse. Marvell was little known as a poet in his own time,
and was best known as a patriotic politician and champion of religious
toleration. Marvell's reputation as a perennially interesting poet has grown
consistently over the last century, as readers have acclaimed not only his
technical excellence, but also the appeal of his verse to a number of themes,
such as poetry and politics, ecology and alternative sexualities.This new
edition presents an authoritative text of Marvell's poetry together with the
fullest account yet published of matters of dating, publication, historical
context, sources and critical reception, contained in a headnote for each poem.
The annotations record in unprecedented detail word definitions, literary,
philosophical and theological analogues and allusions, and address local points
of interpretation, making use of the many hundreds of publications devoted to
Marvell's life and works. Marvell's canon is reappraised: some poems considered
dubious hitherto are added, and others excluded. Nigel Smith's edition is the first complete, annotated edition of Andrew
Marvell's verse for thirty years and as such is an indispensable guide to the
study of Marvell's poetry.Nigel Smith is a Professor of English at Princeton
University. He is the author of Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature
in English Radical Religion, 1640-1660 (OUP, 1989) and Literature and
Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (Yale UP, 1994). Andrew Marvell's poetry is renowned for its irony, subtlety and
allusiveness and Nigel Smith shows how such literary qualities were developed
and the various ways in which the complexity of meanings may be interpreted.
The aim of this book is to present through commentary and annotation, a full
historical and literary context to Marvell's poetry.
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