Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics

Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics

Author: Joan Faust

Publisher: University of Delaware

Published: 2012-09-20

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1611494117

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Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. The poet and his work have generally proven enigmatic to scholars because both refuse to fit into normal categories and expectations. This study invites Marvell readers to view the poet and some of his representative lyrics in the context of the anthropological concept of liminality as developed by Victor Turner and enriched by Arnold Van Gennep, Jacques Lacan, and other observers of the in-between aspects of experience. The approach differs from previous attempts to “explain” Marvell in that it allows multidisciplinary and multi-media contexts in a broad matrix of the areas of experience and representation that defy boundaries, that blur the line at which entrance becomes exit. This study acknowledges that the poems discussed, and, by implication, the entire corpus of Marvell’s work and the life that produced it, derive from a refusal to draw a definite divide. In analyzing a small selection of Marvell’s life and lyrics as explorations of various realms of liminality in word and image, readers can see a passageway to the poet’s works that never really reaches a destination; instead, the unlimited possibilities of the journey remain. Thus, the in-between aspects of the poet and his poetry actually define his technique as well as his brilliance.


Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane

Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane

Author: Derek Hirst

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-06-14

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0199655375

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This text studies the poetry and polemics of early modern writer Andrew Marvell. It situates Marvell and his writings within the patronage networks and political upheavals of mid-17th century England.


To His Coy Mistress

To His Coy Mistress

Author: Andrew Marvell

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781857996692

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An enigmatic men, whose poems balance opposing principles-Royalism and Republicanism, spirituality and sexuality.


Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry

Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry

Author: George Klawitter

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1683931041

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Andrew Marvell, Sexual Orientation, and Seventeenth-Century Poetry examines the important Interregnum/Restoration poet Andrew Marvell against a background of his contemporary lyric poets. His major works from the early elegies to the later political pieces are discussed with a view to unmasking the poet’s own sexuality and his reflection of prevailing sexual attitudes. Popular poems like the Mower poems and “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn” are explicated in depth as well as lesser known poems like “The Unfortunate Lover” and “The Gallery.” Marvell, often described as a “chameleon” has teased readers for hundreds of years. This new book will help both new readers as well as established Marvellians to understand cryptic sexual meanings and references in the verses. Poems are explicated against current heteronormative theory as well as recent work on homoeroticism, autoeroticism, and celibacy. George Klawitter has devoted much of his recent scholarly life to a study of Marvell’s lyric pieces and brings to this new book fresh insights into the suggestive intent of the poet’s works.


Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane

Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane

Author: Derek Hirst

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-06-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0191627976

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Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of immense lyric talent and political importance. The book situates these writings and this writer within the patronage networks and political upheavals of mid seventeenth-century England. Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker track Marvell's negotiations among personalities and events; explores his idealizations, attachments, and subversions, and speculate on the meaning of the narratives that he told of himself within his writings — what they call his 'imagined life'. Hirst and Zwicker draw the figure of an imagined life from the repeated traces Marvell left of lyric yearning and satiric anger, and suggest how these were rooted both in the body and in the imagination. The book sheds new light on some of Marvell's most familiar poems — 'Upon Appleton House', 'The Garden',' To His Coy Mistress', and 'Horatian Ode' — but at its centre is an extended reading of Marvell's 'The unfortunate Lover', his least familiar and surely most mysterious lyric, and his most sustained narrative of the self. By attending to the lyric, the polemical, and the parliamentary careers together, this book offers a reading, for the first time, of Marvell and his writings as an interpretable whole.


The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell

The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell

Author: Patsy Griffin

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780874135619

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The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell deals with the specific historical presences and pressures that led Marvell to devise his defenses of Richard Lovelace, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Fairfax, and John Milton. It also focuses on the poetic or formal response that Marvell makes to historical fact, not only in the strategies of his language, but also in the perceptible adjustments such strategies signal for his self-appointed role as poet-apologist.


Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell

Author: Nigel Smith

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-11-30

Total Pages: 635

ISBN-13: 030016839X

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Andrew Marvell is an intriguing personality, variously identified as a patriot & a spy, a conspirator, closet homosexual, father of the liberal tradition, incendiary satirical pamphleteer & freethinker.


Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell

Author: Robert Wilcher

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1985-04-18

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780521277228

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This study provides a comprehensive and coherent account of all Andrew Marvell's poetry.


Selected Poetry and Prose

Selected Poetry and Prose

Author: Andrew Marvell

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780416402308

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Includes Marvell's satirical and polemical prose, his formal and informal letters, as well as the main body of lyric poetry on which his modern reputation rests.