The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell

Volume 1, 1672-1673

Andrew Marvell, Martin Dzelzainis, Annabel Patterson

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9780300129977
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Essays
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Contents: Volume I
• Contents: Volume II
• Introduction
• Editorial Protocols
• Chronology: Marvell in the Restoration
• REHEARSAL TRANSPROS’ D 1672
• Introduction
• REHEARSAL TRANSPROS’D: THE SECOND PART 1673
• The Rehearsal Transpros’d: The Second Part
• Appendixes
• Appendix A: ‘‘The Justice of the Swedish Cause’’
• Appendix B: Suetonius’s Life of Caligula
• Appendix C: ‘‘The King’s Speech’’
• Index