The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell: Volume II, 1676-1678 Volume 2 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300099362)

Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is best known today as the author of a handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose interventions in the major issues of the Restoration, religious toleration, and what he called "arbitrary" as distinct from parliamentary government. This is the first modern edition of all Marvell's prose pamphlets, complete with introductions and annotation explaining the historical context. Four major scholars of the Restoration era have collaborated to produce this truly Anglo-American edition.

From the Rehearsal Transpros'd, a serio-comic best-seller which appeared with tacit permission from Charles II himself, through the documentary Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government, Marvell established himself not only as a model of liberal thought for the eighteenth century but also as an irresistible new voice in political polemic, wittier, more literary, and hence more readable than his contemporaries.


Author: Andrew Marvell
ISBN-10: 0300099363
ISBN-13: 9780300099362
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2003
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.93lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.52w x 1.37d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2004 pg. 1473