Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller: Seventeenth-century Praise and Restoration Satire

Գրքի շապիկի երեսը
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991 - 208 էջ

In 1660, Edmund Waller was an eminent poet whose claims to fame rivaled those of even his most illustrious predecessors, while Andrew Marvell had scarcely any reputation at all. Today, however, that situation is completely reversed. A. B. Chambers's study shows that Waller has been unjustly neglected in recent times and that, together, some of the work of Waller and Marvell bridged the gap between the work of the early seventeenth century and the Restoration. Chambers suggests that Waller and Marvell are mutually illuminating, that their poems have substantial intrinsic interest, and that they opened the door through which Dryden made his entrance to become the dominant literary figure of the Restoration.

Chambers situates important poems by both authors within historical and literary contexts as an aid to elucidating both meaning and poetic achievement, but he also pays close historical attention to details of language, syntax, and metrics that supply meaning. He provides a significant new reading of Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," while also situating the poem within Marvell's poetic and political careers. He also presents a fuller, more accurate picture of the period by taking into account the conceptual and poetic problems that both authors necessarily confronted and by examining the curiously inverted parallelism of the strategies that they employed in addressing those problems.

From inside the book

Բովանդակություն

Glue and Marvells Mistress
15
Waller and King Charles in St Jamess Park
57
Waller and the Painter
85
Հեղինակային իրավունք

6 այլ բաժինները չեն ցուցադրվում

Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all

Common terms and phrases

Վկայակոչումներ այս գրքի մասին

Հեղինակի մասին (1991)

A.B. Chambers is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the editor of The Works of John Dryden, Volume 4 (1974).

Բիբլիոգրաֆիական տվյալներ