The Poems of Andrew Marvell

by Smith,Nigel; Smith,Nigel

• ISBN13: 9781405832830
• ISBN10: 1405832835
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-08-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The first complete, annotated edition of Andrew Marvell's verse for thirty years, this is an indispensable guide to the study of Marvell's poetry. Best available scholarly edition of Andrew Marvell's poems Striking new cover design will make the paperback edition stand out on the shelf

Author Biography

Nigel Smith is a Professor of English at PrincetonUniversity. He is the author of Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion, 1640-1660 (1989) and Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (1994).

Table of Contents

Note by the General Editors	xi
Introduction	xii
Acknowledgements	xviii
List of Illustrations	xx
Abbreviations	xxi
Journal Abbreviations	xxiii
Chronological Table of Marvell's Life and Chief Publications	xxiv
Poems	1	(422)
Poems published in Print before 1650	3	(2)
Ad Regem Carolum Parodia	5	(5)
Πρoζ Kαρoλov τov βασιλεα	10	(1)
An Elegy Upon the Death of My Lord Francis Villiers	11	(7)
To his Noble Friend Mr Richard Lovelace, upon his Poems	18	(5)
Upon the Death of Lord Hastings	23	(10)
Miscellaneous Poems (1681)	31	(2)
A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure	33	(6)
On a Drop of Dew	39	(4)
Ros	43	(3)
The Coronet	46	(4)
Eyes and Tears	50	(4)
Bermudas	54	(5)
Clorinda and Damon	59	(2)
A Dialogue between the Soul and Body	61	(4)
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn	65	(7)
Young Love	72	(3)
To His Coy Mistress	75	(10)
The Unfortunate Lover	85	(7)
The Gallery	92	(4)
The Fair Singer	96	(2)
Mourning	98	(4)
Daphnis and Chloe	102	(5)
The Definition of Love	107	(5)
The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers	112	(4)
Tom May's Death	116	(9)
The Match	125	(6)
The Mower Poems	128	(3)
The Mower against Gardens	131	(4)
Damon the Mower	135	(5)
The Mower to the Glow-worms	140	(4)
The Mower's Song	144	(2)
Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes	146	(2)
Music's Empire	148	(4)
The Garden	152	(8)
Hortus	160	(3)
To a Gentleman that only upon the sight of the Author's writing, had given a Character of his Person and Judgement of his Fortune Illustrissimo Viro Domino Lanceloto Josepho de Maniban Grammatomanti	163	(3)
Flecknoe, an English Priest at Rome	166	(9)
Dignissimo suo Amico Doctori Wittie. De Translatione Vulgi Errorum D. Primrosii	175	(3)
To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty upon His Translation of the Popular Errors	178	(2)
On Mr Milton's Paradise Lost	180	(5)
Inscribenda Luparae	185	(2)
Upon a Eunuch: a Poet	187	(2)
In the French Translation of Lucan, by Monsieur De Brebeuf are these Verses	189	(1)
The Second Chorus from Seneca's Tragedy Thyestes	190	(2)
Janae Oxenbrigiae Epitaphium	192	(3)
Johannis Trottii Epitaphium	195	(1)
Edmundi Trottii Epitaphium	195	(4)
An Epitaph upon Frances Jones	199	(2)
Epigramma in Duos Montes Amosclivum et Bilboreum. Farfacio	201	(2)
Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough, To the Lord Fairfax	203	(7)
Upon Appleton House, To My Lord Fairfax	210	(32)
A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda	242	(4)
The Character of Holland	246	(11)
In Legationem Domini Oliveri St John ad Provincias Foederatas	257	(2)
A Letter to Doctor Ingelo, then with my Lord Whitelocke, Ambassador from the Protector to the Queen of Sweden	259	(8)
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland	267	(14)
The First Anniversary of the Government under His Highness the Lord Protector	281	(18)
A Poem upon the Death of his Late Highness the Lord Protector	299	(14)
In Effigiem Oliveri Cromwell	313	(1)
In eandem Reginae Sueciae transmissam	314	(2)
Two Songs at the Marriage of the Lord Fauconberg and the Lady Mary Cromwell	316	(13)
The Advice-to-a-Painter and Associated Poems	321	(8)
The Second Advice to a Painter	329	(15)
The Third Advice to a Painter	344	(13)
Clarendon's Housewarming	357	(5)
The Last Instructions to a Painter	362	(37)
Verse Satires from the 1670s	397	(2)
The Loyal Scot	399	(14)
Bludius et Corona	413	(1)
Epigram: Upon Blood's attempt to steal the Crown	413	(2)
The Statue in Stocks-Market	415	(3)
The Statue at Charing Cross	418	(2)
Scaevola Scoto-Brittannus	420	(3)
Appendices	423	(40)
Appendix 1: On the Victory obtained by Blake over the Spaniards, in the Bay of Santa Cruz, in the Island of Tenerife, 1657	425	(5)
Appendix 2: Manuscripts and Printed Books	430	(4)
Appendix 3: Textual Variants	434	(28)
Appendix 4: List of Poems of Uncertain Attribution	462	(1)
Bibliography of References Cited	463	(6)
Index of Titles and First Lines	469