The Judgment of Marvell
Published on 1. November 1989
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-86187-805-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is a detailed critical commentary on Andrew Marvell's lyric poems from "A Dialogue between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure" to "The Garden", which follows the arrangement of poems in the 1681 Folio. The book is divided into three parts, each of which indicates a mode of life - active, comtemplative and pleasurable - and offers a framework for close critical discussion of the poetry. Christine Rees demonstrates that the ordering of poems in the Folio indicates a progression and a coherence amongst the poems and provides a structure for the debate about ideas in Marvell's poetry.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-86187-805-5 (9780861878055)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Part 1 The contemplative life: the choice of eternity - "A dialogue between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure"; ars contemplativa - "On a Drop of Dew", "The Coronet", "Eyes and Tears"; contemplation in a landscape - "Bermudas", "Clorinda and Damon", "A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda"; self-contemplation - "A Dialogue between the Soul and Body", the garden of contemplation - "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun". Part 2 The life of love and pleasure: persuasions to love - " Young Love", "To his Coy Mistress"; ars amatoria - "The Unfortunate Lover", "The Gallery", "The Fair Singer", "Mourning", "Daphnis and Chloe"; definitions of love - "The Definition of Love", "The Match"; love in a garden - "The Picture of Little TC in a Prospect of Flowers"; love in a landscape - "The Mover against Gardens", "Damon the Mower", "The Mower to the Glo-Worms", "The Mower's Song", "Ametas and Thestylis making Hay-Ropes". Part 3 The threefold harmony: music and the triplex vita - "Musicks Empire"; the poet in the garden - "The Garden".