By Denys Van Renen Download full text of review RYAN NETZLEY. Lyric Apocalypse: Milton Marvell, and the Nature of Events. Pp. 288. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. Hardback, $45 (£31). The stakes involved in Ryan Netzley’s new study, Lyric Apocalypse: Milton, Marvell, and the Nature of Events, are justifiably quite high. He covers a … Read more
By Martin Dzelzainis Download full text of article In 1693, Sir Peter Pett (1630-99), the close friend of Marvell’s former patron, the earl of Anglesey, was involved in a number of publishing projects with the bookseller, John Dunton. One outcome of this collaboration was the Memoirs of the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey, Late … Read more
By A. D. Cousins Download full text of article Marvell wrote An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland in a political environment where Rome was a frequent and contested point of reference. Pervasively throughout his poem, he uses Roman literature to confront a new political regime—a nascent Republic, now overshadowed by Oliver Cromwell—that has … Read more
By Timothy Raylor Download full text of article I How should we take Bermudas?[1] Is it a straightforward propaganda poem, commemorating the commencement of the godly governorship of the newly appointed Somers Island commissioner and erstwhile colonist, John Oxenbridge? Or is the poem shot through with doubts and questions—with ironies that call into question … Read more
By Emma Annette Wilson Download full text of report The New Year 2015 gives us a new “grassy stage” on which to reflect upon one of the Marvell Society’s most extensive set of sessions for the 2014 South-Central Renaissance Conference, and also to anticipate an equally large gathering set to take place at the upcoming … Read more