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Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 2000. VG+. First Australian Edition, First Printing. Paperback. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, CHRISTOPHER WORTHAM, on half-title page. Inscription reads, 'January 2001/For ------- ---------/with best wishes from/Chris Wortham'. l,337pp. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) was an English poet, satirist and politican who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. When Andrew Marvell died in 1678, virtually none of his lyric poetry had been published. In 1681 the Folio of his poetry was printed through the efforts of his housekeeper, Mary Palmer, who claimed to be his widow in order to obtain the execution of his estate. His lyric poems, most of which first appeared in the Folio, were virtually ignored, however, until the twentieth century, when an influential essay by T S Eliot secured Marvell's elevation to the very highest rank of English poets. His poems 'The Garden' and 'To…
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Andrew Marvell: Pastoral and Lyric Poems 1681 Paperback - 1999
by Andrew Marvell; David Ormerod (Editor); Christopher Wortham (Editor)
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- Title Andrew Marvell: Pastoral and Lyric Poems 1681
- Author Andrew Marvell; David Ormerod (Editor); Christopher Wortham (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Western Australia Press
- Date June 1, 1999
- ISBN 9781876268145 / 187626814X
- Reading level 1390
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.4
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