A set of specially commissioned essays forming a fresh understanding of the poet within his time and place.

Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh qu

English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more full

This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

Andrew Marvell is an intriguing personality, variously identified as a patriot & a spy, a conspirator, closet homosexual, father of the liberal tradition, incen