Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit

by Nicholas McDowell

This book is about the things which could unite, rather than divide, poets during the English Civil Wars: friendship, patronage relations, literary admiration, and anti-clericalism. The central figure is Andrew Marvell, renowned for his "ambivalent" allegiance in the late 1640s. Little is known about Marvell's associations in this period, when many of his best-known lyrics were composed. The London literary circle which formed in 1647 under the patronage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199278008
• ISBN13: 9780199278008
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"