A set of specially commissioned essays forming a fresh understanding of the poet within his time and place.

Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest lyric poets of England's 17th century and one of its leading political writers. This companion brings a set of fresh quest

English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more full

Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest lyric poets of England's seventeenth century and one of its leading political writers. This Companion brings a set of fres

This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.