Andrew Marvell: Selected Poetry and Prose

by Marvell, Andrew; Wilcher, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780203194355
• ISBN10: 0203194357
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contempoprary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	p. vii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Polemicist in Prose: Contemporary and Later Comments	p. 27
Richard Leigh on the Rehearsal Transpros'd	p. 28
Samuel Parker's First Response	p. 36
Edmund Hickeringill on the Rehearsal Transpros'd	p. 40
[? Joseph Glanvill] on the Rehearsal Transpros'd	p. 42
An Anonymous Comment on the Author of the Rehearsal Transpros'd	p. 45
Rochester on the Parker Controversy	p. 47
Robert Mcward Comments on Parker and Marvell	p. 48
Thomas Long Comments on the Transproser	p. 49
Bishop Burnet on the Parker Controversy	p. 50
Anthony À Wood on the Parker Controversy	p. 52
Dean Swift's Allusion to the Controversy	p. 54
Isaac Disraeli on the Parker Controversy	p. 56
Bishop Croft's Letter to Marvell	p. 64
An Anonymous Poetic Tribute to Marvell's Character	p. 66
W. P. Ker on the Superiority of Mr. Smirke	p. 67
An Anonymous Notice from a Letter from Amsterdam	p. 70
Sir Roger L'estrange on the Growth of Popery	p. 71
[? Marchamont Nedham] on the Author of the Growth of Popery	p. 77
An Anonymous Tribute on His Excellent Friend	p. 81
Tell-Truth's Comment on Marvell	p. 82
John Dryden's Comments	p. 83
Bishop Parker on the Growth of Popery and the 'First Anniversary'	p. 85
A Further Comment on the Growth of Popery	p. 87
Three Eighteenth-Century Historians Comment	p. 89
Henry Rogers on Marvell's Defense of Howe	p. 93
Dr John Brown on Marvell	p. 97
Satirist, Patriot, and Emergent Poet	p. 99
Milton's Recommendation of Marvell	p. 99
John Aubrey's Comments	p. 100
James Yonge, from His Journal	p. 102
Nahum Tate, an Allusion	p. 102
Preface to Poems on Affairs of State	p. 103
Defoe on Satirical Poetry	p. 106
Thomas Cooke on the Life and Writings	p. 109
James Parsons on 'Eyes and Tears'	p. 111
Voltaire on in Eandem [effigiem] Reginae Sueciae Transmissam	p. 112
William Mason, from the Ode 'To Independency'	p. 113
Charles Churchill on Satiric Poetry	p. 114
Captain Edward Thompson on Marvell's Works	p. 118
John Aikin on Marvell	p. 122
William Wordsworth's Sonnet	p. 124
Three Political Comparisons	p. 125
Poet and Prose Writer	p. 129
William Lisle Bowles, a Note on Two Poems	p. 129
Thomas Campbell on Marvell	p. 130
Charles Lamb's Comments	p. 131
William Hazlitt on the Poetry	p. 132
Leigh Hunt's Multiple Comments	p. 134
A Two-Part Anonymous Account of Marvell	p. 141
A Two-Part Anonymous Account of Marvell	p. 141
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Comments	p. 146
from a Letter to H. F. Cary	p. 148
from the Life of Andrew Marvell	p. 149
Three Anonymous Reviews of Dove's Life	p. 152
Hartley Coleridge from the Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire	p. 157
Samuel Carter Hall on the Poetry	p. 160
Edgar Allan Poe Comments	p. 161
Robert Chambers on Marvell	p. 165
From the Penny Cyclopaedia	p. 168
Henry Rogers's Observations on Marvell	p. 169
George L. Craik's Observations on Marvell	p. 186
A Portrait of the Poet and Prose Writer	p. 188
John Greenleaf Whittier on Marvell	p. 196
Mrs S. C. Hall on Marvell	p. 200
Mary Russell Mitford, from Recollections of a Literary Life	p. 203
An Anonymous Notice on the 'Horatian Ode' and 'Eyes and Tears'	p. 204
James Russell Lowell's Observations on Marvell's Poetry	p. 209
from Biographical Lectures	p. 211
George Gilfillan Comments on Marvell	p. 213
Matthew Arnold on the 'Horatian Ode'	p. 214
Herman Merivale's Comments on the Political Poetry	p. 215
Sainte Beuve on the 'Horatian Ode'	p. 217
Archbishop Trench's Comments on 'Eyes and Tears, ' 'Horatian Ode, ' and 'On a Drop of Dew'	p. 218
John Ormsby's Essay from the Cornhill Magazine	p. 220
James Russell Lowell on Two of the Cromwell Poems	p. 232
Charles Cowden Clarke on Marvell	p. 233
Edward Fitzgerald's Comments on Two Poems	p. 235
W. D. Christie's Reviews of Grosart's Edition	p. 236
An American Divine Comments	p. 242
Sir Edmund Gosse on the Garden Poetry	p. 245
Alfred Lord Tennyson's Comments	p. 246
Poetic Reassessment	p. 248
A. C. Benson on Marvell	p. 248
J. Stuart's Review of Marvell in the Muses' Library Series	p. 263
Sir E. K. Chambers's Review of Marvell in the Muses' Library Series	p. 267
Richard Garnett on Marvell	p. 271
An Anonymous Comment on the Poetry	p. 274
Alice Meynell's Comments on Marvell	p. 276
George Saintsbury's Comments on Marvell	p. 282
H. C. Beeching on the Lyrics	p. 284
An Anonymous Review Article on Marvell's Prose Style	p. 297
W. J. Courthope on 'The First Anniversary'	p. 299
Stephen Gwynn on the Puritanism of the Poet	p. 303
Augustine Birrell on Marvell	p. 304
Three Unsigned Reviews of Birrell's Andrew Marvell	p. 307
A Poet's Review of Birrell's Edition	p. 314
Albert F. Sieveking on Garden Poetry	p. 317
Emile Legouis Comments on 'The Death of O. C'	p. 318
Edward B. Reed on Marvell's Lyrics	p. 319
Francis L. Bickley on the Quality of Marvell's Poetry	p. 323
Isaac Rosenberg Comments on 'To His Coy Mistress'	p. 333
A. Glutton-Brock on Marvell and Vaughan	p. 334
H. M. Margoliouth on Marvell and His Contemporaries	p. 339
H. J. Massingham on Marvell's Poetry	p. 349
Sir Herbert Grierson on the Metaphysical Lyric	p. 354
Cyril Falls on the Tercentenary of Marvell's Birth	p. 357
T. S. Eliot on the Tercentenary of Marvell's Birth	p. 362
Bibliography	p. 377
Index	p. 379
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