From the political to the poetical This new edition is the ideal guide to Marvell's deceptively simple poems, says Blair Worden

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 31, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Poems of Andrew Marvell

ed by Nigel Smith

Longman, pounds 50, 468 pp

pounds 50 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

FEW LOVERS of English poetry do not love the poems of Andrew Marvell, but it was not always so. The stature of his verse is a modern development. It emerged from the most striking transformation of a literary reputation in our history.

Marvell used to have a different fame. For more than two centuries after his death in 1678 he was revered not for his poetry but for his politics. Whigs and Liberals idolised his brave opposition, as MP for his native Hull, to the tyranny and ...

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