Author: Patsy Griffin
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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.