The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell
Volume 1, 1672-1673
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The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell
Volume 1, 1672-1673
About This Book
Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is best known today as the author of a handful of exquisite lyrics and provocative political poems. In his own time, however, Marvell was famous for his brilliant prose interventions in the major issues of the Restoration, religious toleration, and what he called "arbitrary" as distinct from parliamentary government.
This is the first modern edition of all Marvell's prose pamphlets, complete with introductions and annotation explaining the historical context. Four major scholars of the Restoration era have collaborated to produce this truly Anglo-American edition.From theRehearsal Transpros'd,a serio-comic best-seller which appeared with tacit permission from Charles II himself, through the documentary Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government, Marvell established himself not only as a model of liberal thought for the eighteenth century but also as an irresistible new voice in political polemic, wittier, more literary, and hence more readable than his contemporaries.
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Table of contents
- Contents: Volume I
- Contents: Volume II
- Introduction
- Editorial Protocols
- Chronology: Marvell in the Restoration
- REHEARSAL TRANSPROSâ D 1672
- Introduction
- REHEARSAL TRANSPROSâD: THE SECOND PART 1673
- The Rehearsal Transprosâd: The Second Part
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: ââThe Justice of the Swedish Causeââ
- Appendix B: Suetoniusâs Life of Caligula
- Appendix C: ââThe Kingâs Speechââ
- Index