Andrew Marvell: Pastoral And Lyric Poems 1681 (SCARCE AUSTRALIAN FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR CHRISTOPHER WORTHAM)

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 His Coy Mistress' are universally regarded as two of the major achievements of the English seventeenth-century literary sensibility. This edition features a completely re-edited text of those poems of most interest to modern readers. Detailed notes and introductory material locate Marvell and his poems within the main intellectual and political currents of his time, providing a window for the modern reader into Marvell's mental world. The extensive bibliography. will be indespensive to students of English literature and academic specialists. Light sunning around spine; esle a very good plus copy of a SCARCE first Australian edition, first printing SIGNED BY AUTHOR CHRIS WORTHAM . Presentation Copy Inscribed & Signed. First Australian Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Very Good Plus.