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World enough and time : the life of Andrew Marvell / Nicholas Murray
by Murray, Nicholas
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0316648639
- ISBN 13
- 9780316648639
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About This Item
London : Little, Brown, 1999. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 294 pages; 294 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Summary: The life of poet Andrew Marvell (1621-78) has often seemed puzzling and enigmatic. In this biography, he emerges as an important figure in the political as well as the poetic life of his time. Marvell lived through one of the most turbulent periods in English history and, after the Civil War and the Commonwealth, he became a Member of Parliament at the Restoration, serving the town of Hull until his death nearly two decades later. These political events enter his poems, sometimes directly, as in the famous Horatian Ode on Oliver Cromwell, sometimes indirectly as in his deceptively formal pastoral and lyric verse. This biography attempts to present an integrated portrait of Marvell the poet and the politician, and to show that for Marvell, poetry and politics were not opposed activities. Subjects: Poets, English - 17th century - Biography. Poets, English - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Biography.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 223297
- Title
- World enough and time : the life of Andrew Marvell / Nicholas Murray
- Author
- Murray, Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316648639
- ISBN 13
- 9780316648639
- Publisher
- London : Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
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