Beschreibung:
Studying the Folio of 1681, this book explores Marvell's connoisseurship with myth, his role as mythmaker, when he represents the experiencing of loss and aspiration amid the uncertainties of life in mid-seventeenth-century England. It particularly examines Marvell's preoccupation with the search for home, and with redefining the homeland, in times of civil upheaval.
Contents: Introduction; The mower poems; Lovers, gardens, paradise: the nymph and the coy mistress; Lovers, gardens, paradise: Bermudas and The Garden; The religious verse; The royalist poems and An Horatian Ode; Home and homeland in Upon Appleton House, To My Lord Fairfax; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.