Explain how Andrew Marvell uses allegory and/or classical allusion to direct the reader's response to history in one or more of his civil war poems'.
Date Submitted: 05/23/2004 20:29:41
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 5 pages (1343 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 5 pages (1343 words)
In his poem The Nymph complaining for the death of her Faun Andrew Marvell puts allegory and classical allusion to work with great effect and I will show in this essay how he directs the reader to see the historical references he was alluding to. Andrew Marvell's father was a minister and Marvell would probably have heard allegorical interpretation on a daily basis as well as in sermons. Coupling this with his education I would …
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…her Faun, in Davidson, Peter, ed, Poetry and Revolution, An Anthology of British And Irish Verse 1625-1660 (Oxford: Oxford University Press., 2001), pp.438-442.
Secondary Texts.
Eliot, T.S., Andrew Marvell in George deF. Lord, ed, Andrew Marvell, A Collection Of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968), pp.18-28.
King, Bruce., Marvell's Allegorical Poetry (Cambridge: The Oleander Press., 1997), pp. 47-65.
Leishman, J.B., The Art of Marvell's Poetry (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1972), pp.90-159.
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