Andrew Marvell: World Enough and Time

by Nicholas Murray

Fine/Near Fine. First Edition Hardcover. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight indenting to rear. 294pp. Biography of Andrew Marvell, one of the finest lyric poets of the seventeenth century whose introspective poetry was not rediscovered until the 1920s.when it achieved full recognition. ISBN 0316648639

Genres: Poetry, Biography, History

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Nicholas Murray is an English biographer, poet and journalist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichola...


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Reviews

[Jeremy]

A very interesting book on the 17th century poet, diplomat, politician and pamphleteer Andrew Marvel. Murray does a superb job of locating all the available information on this enigmatic man and then making some kind of sense of it all. Marvel's poetry, couched in 17th century language and studded with classical allusions, can be hard to understand at times, but Murray does a great job here as well through analysis and explanation. I wonder how much longer these men will still be read in a world increasingly given to the smartphone whose youngest users appear to have the attention span of a malnourished gnat!

[David]

Educational, not interesting or entertaining.

[Keerthi Vasishta]

A very accessible and comprehensive literary biography of the mysterious poet.

[James McCrone]

This is a very good biography of Andrew Marvel. I picked it up because I am looking to write something about him. I found it engaging and informative. I also found it refreshing that the author didn't try to fill in missing blanks with conjecture but rather admits to there being areas of Marvel's life we don't know about.

[Jan-Jaap van Peperstraten]

Fascinating biography of Andrew Marvell, the metaphysical poet who as it turned out was also a professional politician. Well written and peppered with delicious little anecdotes about the high & mighty of Restoration Britain