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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Page 51
... tears ( see below , 1. 55n . ) . The emblem tradition provides a focus for each suc- cessive stanza : see , e.g. , Peacham , Minerva Britanna or a Garden of Heroical Devises ... tears , which Sorrow long did weigh Within Eyes and Tears 51.
... tears ( see below , 1. 55n . ) . The emblem tradition provides a focus for each suc- cessive stanza : see , e.g. , Peacham , Minerva Britanna or a Garden of Heroical Devises ... tears , which Sorrow long did weigh Within Eyes and Tears 51.
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... tears be the same things : And stars show lovely in the night , But as they seem the tears of light . 55 And each the other's diff'rence bears ; These weeping eyes , those seeing tears . 60 * Magdala , lascivos sic quum dimisit Amantes ...
... tears be the same things : And stars show lovely in the night , But as they seem the tears of light . 55 And each the other's diff'rence bears ; These weeping eyes , those seeing tears . 60 * Magdala , lascivos sic quum dimisit Amantes ...
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... tears suspended ere they flow , Seem bending upwards , to restore To heaven , whence it came , their woe . 20 V And , while vain Pomp does her restrain Within her solitary bow'r , She courts herself in am'rous rain ; Herself both Danaƫ ...
... tears suspended ere they flow , Seem bending upwards , to restore To heaven , whence it came , their woe . 20 V And , while vain Pomp does her restrain Within her solitary bow'r , She courts herself in am'rous rain ; Herself both Danaƫ ...
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 |
Copyright | |
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