{"product_id":"andrew-marvell-9780300181968","title":"Andrew Marvell","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe seventeenth-century poet Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) is one of the most intriguing figures in English literature. This title offers a look into Marvell's life, from his early employment as a tutor and gentleman's companion to his suspicious death, reputedly a politically fueled poisoning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Superlative. . . . The fullest portrait we have to date.\"—David Yezzi, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e -- David Yezzi * The Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"Nigel Smith. . . has certainly mastered everything that can be learned about this elusive, shadowy and very private man.\"—Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e -- Michael Dirda * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\"Smith asks the right questions about Marvell's life and time, and he works assiduously in helping to lay 'a new foundation of the documentary knowledge.' . . . [A] worthy biography.\"—Megan Buskey, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e -- Megan Buskey * The New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"He offers the fullest available account of Marvell's political activities, fully contextualized. . . . [An] indispensible guide.\"—Paul Dean, \u003ci\u003eThe New Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e -- Paul Dean * The New Criterion *\u003cbr\u003e\"Nigel Smith attends skillfully to the poetry, but he also provides extensive information about the period as well as the complicated development of Marvell's political and religious views. . . . [Smith's] is probably the most complete biography of Marvell we are likely to see.\"—Jerome Donnelly, \u003ci\u003eAmerica\u003c\/i\u003e -- Jerome Donnelly * America *\u003cbr\u003e\"Smith delivers fresh insights into Marvell’s experiences and character…. a fascinating psychological portrait of Marvell.\"—Helen Hackett, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e -- Helen Hackett * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\"From reclusive poet to undercover pamphleteer, Andrew Marvell has always been a mystery man. But nobody knows him better than Nigel Smith, who now follows his definitive edition of the poetry with an up-to-date and state-of-the-art biography.\"—Annabel Patterson, Yale University -- Annabel Patterson\u003cbr\u003e\"The remarkable depth of Nigel Smith's research makes new sense of a celebratedly elusive writer.\"—David Norbrook, author of \u003ci\u003ePoetry and Politics in the English Renaissance \u003c\/i\u003e -- David Norbrook\u003cbr\u003e‘Nigel Smith's definitive biography of Marvell is a gripping read, opening up a world of surprisingly intense interactions between poetry and politics in England's most turbulent modern century.  Smith brilliantly illuminates the two sides of Marvell's poetical character--the engaged, parliamentary brawler and controversialist, and the weirdly detached observer of the world--but he also shows how the mysteriousness of Marvell's character resides at last in the very independence and privacy for which Marvell so publicly fought.\"—Gordon Teskey, Harvard University -- Gordon Teskey\u003cbr\u003e\"Rich in detail and impeccably lucid, this remarkable study allows us to understand the subtle poet and elusive politician as we never have before. If Marvell was a mirror to the world, as one of the book's sources says, Nigel Smith is the perfect guide to the mirror and its world, master of the difficult art of looking-glass history.\"—Michael Wood, Princeton University -- Michael Wood\u003cbr\u003e'The chameleon that emerges from this badly needed, deeply researched study is not just the subtle lyricist familiar from the anthologies but a vigorous verse satirist and an ambitious prose controversialist, whose views still resonate today. Historical sleuthing and literary analysis combine brilliantly in this landmark account - the fullest, most wide-angle picture of Marvell ever produced.\" —John Kerrigan, Professor of English 2000, University of Cambridge -- John Kerrigan\u003cbr\u003e\"Meticulously researched. . . this noteworthy study provides a suitable balance of historical context and literary criticism.\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"Smith makes an excellent case for the enduring power of Marvell's occasional poems and satires.\"—Adam Kirsch, \u003ci\u003eBarnes and Noble Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e -- Adam Kirsch * Barnes and Noble Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] worthy biography.\"—Megan Buskey, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e -- Megan Buskey * The New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] exhaustive, shrewd, wary new biography...Thepoet as craft chameleon in Smith's smart and resonant readings is also the poet as skulking, threatened double agent.\"—Robert Polito, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e -- Robert Polito * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] exhaustive, shrewd, wary new biography.\"—Robert Polito, \u003ci\u003eBookforum \u003c\/i\u003e -- Robert Polito * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003e\"Engaging, intensely researched…. Smith is very good on the historical and political contexts surrounding Marvell…. Smith’s book is a welcome contribution to Marvell studies.\"—Nick Laird, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -- Nick Laird * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] illuminating study.\"—Michael Kerrigan, \u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -- Michael Kerrigan * The Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003e\"The result of Smith’s scholarly close readings is a refreshed and refined sense of Marvell’s poetry, and his biography should be a standard point of reference for future Marvellians.\"—John Stubbs, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e -- John Stubbs * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nigel Smith…has now filled [a] void with this authoritative Life.”—Barton Swaim, \u003ci\u003eThe Weekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Barton Swaim  * The Weekly Standard  *\u003cbr\u003e\"It is an achievment of astonishing depth and equally impressive scope, covering a fascinating, complex period of English history. The book is must reading for early modern scholars.\"—M. Cole, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e -- M. Cole * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\"Meticulously researched and scholarly in tone, this noteworthy study provides a suitable balance of historical context and literary criticism. Strongly recommended for students and general readers of 17th-century English literature and history.\"—Brian Odom, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e -- Brian Odom * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“Insightful, provocative.”—\u003ci\u003eBooks and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e * Books and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e“Smith’s comprehensive study of Marvell’s many guises will influence critical thinking for years to come.”—A.D Cousins, \u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies Vol.62 No.256\u003c\/i\u003e -- A.D Cousins * Review of English Studies Vol.62 No.256 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Nigel Smith's massive effort . . . obviates the need for any further such survey of Marvell's life and art . . . [Smith's] grasp of seventeenth-century English history, politics, religion, society, is beyond impressive, and he is also a sensitive reader of poetry.\"—William H. Pritchard, \u003ci\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e -- William H. Pritchard * The Hudson Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Nigel Smith… has now filled [a] void with this authoritative Life.”—Barton Swaim, \u003ci\u003eThe Weekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e -- Barton Swaim * The Weekly Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\"Smith's meticulous archival research . . . allows a portrait of the young Marvell to form from relatively few life records. . . . Smith is able to identify relationships between [the political ideas of the prose and the depictions of love and sexuality in the lyric poems] in provocative ways.\"—Curtis Whitaker, \u003ci\u003eHuntington Library Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e -- Curtis Whitaker * Huntington Library Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eSelected as a \u003ci\u003eChoice \u003c\/i\u003eOutstanding Academic Title for 2011 in the English and American category. -- Choice Outstanding Academic Title  * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“This context of danger, where revelations of identity can mean a beheading, permeates the poet’s literary as well as his political work, as this scholarly biography shows.”—\u003ci\u003eSunday Herald (Glasgow)\u003c\/i\u003e * Sunday Herald (Glasgow) *\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2011 HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize -- HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize Shortlist * Biographers' Club *\u003cbr\u003e\"A highly laudatory biography of the republican poet who praised regicides, hated Catholics and exposed in memorable verse corruption in those places he chose to investigate.\"—\u003ci\u003eContemporary Review\u003c\/i\u003e * Contemporary Review *","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864333136215,"sku":"9780300181968","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300181968.jpg?v=1722271457","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/andrew-marvell-9780300181968","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}