Marvell’s Mower Poems as Alternative Literary History

Students of English pastoral—Raymond Williams, Frank Kermode, Helen Cooper, Sukanta Chaudhuri—have long assumed that the mode withers after the death of Marvell. This is mistaken; in fact, it flourishes in Restoration and Georgian Britain as mock-pastoral. Marvell, followed by Rochester, Swift, John...

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Main Author: Bradford Boyd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2016-03-01
Series:Marvell Studies
Online Access:https://marvell.openlibhums.org/articles/2