Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane

Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane is an interdisciplinary study that gives equal weight to literary and historical approaches to Marvell's imagination. But it goes beyond the conventions of these disciplines and the conventional practices of interdisciplinarity to reconstruct the feelings of yearning and loss to which Marvell's poetry and polemics alike give such poignant expression. This book offers new readings of many of Marvell's most cherishedworks, and new ways of reading both his poetry and his prose; and it traces the ways in which these writings engage with Marvell's circumstances, ideals, and the political pressures he endured.

Derek Hirst studied and held his first academic position at Cambridge before moving to Washington University in St Louis in 1975. He has taught (often in tandem with Steven Zwicker) and researched there, and on occasion chaired its History Department, ever since.


Steven Zwicker is Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities at Washington University, and a member of its English Department since 1969; he has held visiting appointments at Doshisha University in Kyoto and at the California Institute of Technology. Over the years, and often together with Derek Hirst, he has taught the literature and cultural history of early modern England.