The modest ambition of Andrew Marvell : a study of Marvell and his relation to Lovelace, Fairfax, Cromwell, and Milton
The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell deals with the specific historical presences and pressures that led Marvell to devise his defenses of Richard Lovelace, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Fairfax, and John Milton. It also focuses on the poetic or formal response that Marvell makes to historical fact, not only in the strategies of his language, but also in the perceptible adjustments such strategies signal for his self-appointed role as poet-apologist
Print Book, English, ©1995
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, London, ©1995
Biography
216 pages ; 25 cm
9780874135619, 0874135613
31901487