The Poems of Andrew MarvellPearson Longman, 2003 - 468 pages The latest edition to the Longman Annotated English Poets series is a complete works of the seventeenth century poet, Andrew Marvell. 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 and it does so in its comprehensive and accurately balanced scholarship. |
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Andrew Marvell Nigel Smith. The Mower Poems 26 The Mower against Gardens. The four Mower poems were printed in 1681 in the sequence adopted here ( and by most editors ) . They are usually assumed to have been first composed during M.'s ...
Andrew Marvell Nigel Smith. The Mower Poems 26 The Mower against Gardens. The four Mower poems were printed in 1681 in the sequence adopted here ( and by most editors ) . They are usually assumed to have been first composed during M.'s ...
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... mowing a field . Alpers ( 1996 ) , 27 , claims that M. was the first poet to make the mower a representative pastoral lover . The mower had a more widely known symbolic life as an emblem of death ( Time , the grim reaper ) . Like M.'s mower ...
... mowing a field . Alpers ( 1996 ) , 27 , claims that M. was the first poet to make the mower a representative pastoral lover . The mower had a more widely known symbolic life as an emblem of death ( Time , the grim reaper ) . Like M.'s mower ...
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... Mower Against Gardens , Date . Publication . 1681 . Sources and Genre . The poem has been identified as a dirge , specifically on account of its repeated refrain ... mowing . The Mower's Song 15 And in your gaudy May - The Mower's Song.
... Mower Against Gardens , Date . Publication . 1681 . Sources and Genre . The poem has been identified as a dirge , specifically on account of its repeated refrain ... mowing . The Mower's Song 15 And in your gaudy May - The Mower's Song.
Contents
Ad Regem Carolum Parodia | 6 |
To his Noble Friend Mr Richard Lovelace upon his Poems | 18 |
A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure | 33 |
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