The Poems of Andrew Marvell

The first complete, annotated edition of Andrew Marvell's verse for thirty years, this is an indispensable guide to the study of Marvell's poetry. Best available scholarly edition of Andrew Marvell's poems Striking new cover design will make the paperback edition stand out on the shelf

Nigel Smith is a Professor of English at PrincetonUniversity. He is the author of Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion, 1640-1660 (1989) and Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (1994).

Note by the General Editors

xi

Introduction

xii

Acknowledgements

xviii

List of Illustrations

xx

Abbreviations

xxi

Journal Abbreviations

xxiii

Chronological Table of Marvell's Life and Chief Publications

xxiv

Poems

1

(422)

Poems published in Print before 1650

3

(2)

Ad Regem Carolum Parodia

5

(5)

Πρoζ Kαρoλov τov βασιλεα

10

(1)

An Elegy Upon the Death of My Lord Francis Villiers

11

(7)

To his Noble Friend Mr Richard Lovelace, upon his Poems

18

(5)

Upon the Death of Lord Hastings

23

(10)

Miscellaneous Poems (1681)

31

(2)

A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure

33

(6)

On a Drop of Dew

39

(4)

Ros

43

(3)

The Coronet

46

(4)

Eyes and Tears

50

(4)

Bermudas

54

(5)

Clorinda and Damon

59

(2)

A Dialogue between the Soul and Body

61

(4)

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn

65

(7)

Young Love

72

(3)

To His Coy Mistress

75

(10)

The Unfortunate Lover

85

(7)

The Gallery

92

(4)

The Fair Singer

96

(2)

Mourning

98

(4)

Daphnis and Chloe

102

(5)

The Definition of Love

107

(5)

The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers

112

(4)

Tom May's Death

116

(9)

The Match

125

(6)

The Mower Poems

128

(3)

The Mower against Gardens

131

(4)

Damon the Mower

135

(5)

The Mower to the Glow-worms

140

(4)

The Mower's Song

144

(2)

Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes

146

(2)

Music's Empire

148

(4)

The Garden

152

(8)

Hortus

160

(3)

To a Gentleman that only upon the sight of the Author's writing, had given a Character of his Person and Judgement of his Fortune Illustrissimo Viro Domino Lanceloto Josepho de Maniban Grammatomanti

163

(3)

Flecknoe, an English Priest at Rome

166

(9)

Dignissimo suo Amico Doctori Wittie. De Translatione Vulgi Errorum D. Primrosii

175

(3)

To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty upon His Translation of the Popular Errors

178

(2)

On Mr Milton's Paradise Lost

180

(5)

Inscribenda Luparae

185

(2)

Upon a Eunuch: a Poet

187

(2)

In the French Translation of Lucan, by Monsieur De Brebeuf are these Verses

189

(1)

The Second Chorus from Seneca's Tragedy Thyestes

190

(2)

Janae Oxenbrigiae Epitaphium

192

(3)

Johannis Trottii Epitaphium

195

(1)

Edmundi Trottii Epitaphium

195

(4)

An Epitaph upon Frances Jones

199

(2)

Epigramma in Duos Montes Amosclivum et Bilboreum. Farfacio

201

(2)

Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough, To the Lord Fairfax

203

(7)

Upon Appleton House, To My Lord Fairfax

210

(32)

A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda

242

(4)

The Character of Holland

246

(11)

In Legationem Domini Oliveri St John ad Provincias Foederatas

257

(2)

A Letter to Doctor Ingelo, then with my Lord Whitelocke, Ambassador from the Protector to the Queen of Sweden

259

(8)

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland

267

(14)

The First Anniversary of the Government under His Highness the Lord Protector

281

(18)

A Poem upon the Death of his Late Highness the Lord Protector

299

(14)

In Effigiem Oliveri Cromwell

313

(1)

In eandem Reginae Sueciae transmissam

314

(2)

Two Songs at the Marriage of the Lord Fauconberg and the Lady Mary Cromwell

316

(13)

The Advice-to-a-Painter and Associated Poems

321

(8)

The Second Advice to a Painter

329

(15)

The Third Advice to a Painter

344

(13)

Clarendon's Housewarming

357

(5)

The Last Instructions to a Painter

362

(37)

Verse Satires from the 1670s

397

(2)

The Loyal Scot

399

(14)

Bludius et Corona

413

(1)

Epigram: Upon Blood's attempt to steal the Crown

413

(2)

The Statue in Stocks-Market

415

(3)

The Statue at Charing Cross

418

(2)

Scaevola Scoto-Brittannus

420

(3)

Appendices

423

(40)

Appendix 1: On the Victory obtained by Blake over the Spaniards, in the Bay of Santa Cruz, in the Island of Tenerife, 1657

425

(5)

Appendix 2: Manuscripts and Printed Books

430

(4)

Appendix 3: Textual Variants

434

(28)

Appendix 4: List of Poems of Uncertain Attribution

462

(1)

Bibliography of References Cited

463

(6)

Index of Titles and First Lines

469

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