Andrew Marvell : The Complete Poems

by Marvell, Andrew; Donno, Elizabeth Story; Bate, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780140424577
• ISBN10: 0140424571
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-29
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

"This edition of Marvell's complete poems is based on a detailed study of the extant manuscripts, with modern translations provided for Marvell's Greek and Latin poems. It also includes a chronology, further reading, appendices, notes, and indexes of titles and first lines, with a new introduction by Jonathan Bate."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Andrew Marvell (1621-û1678) was one the chief satirists of his time as well as being a Puritan and a public defender of individual liberty. Today he is mostly known for his brilliant lyric poetry.
Elizabeth Story Donno edited numerous Elizabethan and Jacobean texts and taught at Columbia, among other places.
Jonathan Bate is King Alfred Professor of English literature and Leverhulme Research Professor at the University of Liverpool.

Table of Contents

Introduction
A dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda	p. 21
Clorinda and Damon	p. 23
Ametas and Thestylis making hay-ropes	p. 24
A dialogue, between the resolved soul and created pleasure	p. 25
Flecknoe, an English priest at Rome	p. 28
To his noble friend Mr. Richard Lovelace	p. 32
An elegy upon the death of my Lord Francis Villiers	p. 34
Mourning	p. 37
The fair singer	p. 39
The gallery	p. 40
The unfortunate lover	p. 42
Daphnis and Chloe	p. 44
Upon the death of the Lord Hastings	p. 47
The definition of love	p. 49
To his coy mistress	p. 50
Eyes and tears	p. 52
The coronet	p. 54
An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland	p. 55
Tom May's death	p. 58
In legationem domini Oliveri St. John	p. 61
To his worthy friend Doctor Witty	p. 62
The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers	p. 63
Young love	p. 64
The match	p. 66
The nymph complaining for the death of her fawn	p. 67
Upon the hill and grove at Bilbrough	p. 71
Epigramma in Duos montes Amosclivium et Bilboreum : farfacio	p. 73
Upon Appleton House	p. 75
The garden	p. 100
On a drop of dew	p. 102
A dialogue between the soul and body	p. 103
The mower against gardens	p. 105
Damon the mower	p. 106
The mower to the glowworms	p. 109
The mower's song	p. 109
Music's empire	p. 111
The character of Holland	p. 112
Bermudas	p. 116
A letter to Doctor Ingelo	p. 117
In effigiem Oliveri Cromwell	p. 125
In eandem [effigiem Oliveri Cromwell] reginae sueciae transmissam	p. 125
The first anniversary of the government under his highness the lord protector	p. 126
Upon an eunuch : a poet	p. 137
The second chorus from Seneca's tragedy Thyestes	p. 137
In the French translation of Lucan ... translated	p. 138
An epitaph upon -	p. 139
On the victory obtained by Blake	p. 139
Two songs at the marriage of the Lord Fauconberg and the Lady Mary Cromwell	p. 144
A poem upon the death of his late highness the lord protector	p. 148
The last instructions to a painter	p. 157
The loyal Scot	p. 183
Inscribenda Luparae	p. 191
On Mr. Milton's Paradise lost	p. 192
Illustrissimo viro domino Lanceloto Josepho de Maniban grammatomanti	p. 194
Additional Latin and Greek poems	p. 197
Ad regem Carolum parodia	p. 199
[Pros Karalon ton Basilea]	p. 202
Dignissimo suo amico Doctori Witty	p. 203
Hortus	p. 204
Ros	p. 208
Uncertain attribution	p. 211
[Blood and the crown]	p. 213
Bludius et corona	p. 213
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