Andrew Marvell

Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College (through Caroline B. Dow

KP 's maternal grandfather, Daniel Oxenbridge , was a physician with an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Her uncle John Oxenbridge was a friend of Milton and Marvell .

Many of KC 's poems present briefly magical moments in the course of quotidian reality: birds gathering in flocks to migrate, the rush of water from a burst main, are presented like treasure troves of...

Here she reaches perhaps her richest and wittiest handling of allusion, in poems whose titles half-conceal their mentors, like A Marvell (which begins, Oh world enough we have but we lack time, and ends,...

Although AF is often thought of as a writer of pastoral, on account of the fame of A Noctural Reverie, this mode is fairly rare in her work. She is a very social poet....

It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? In tracing the story to before the Act...

This was work in keeping with his family's political position. Attending Westminster School only a stone's throw from a whole succession of exciting and disturbing national events must surely have awakened Dryden's historical and political...

One of her best-known poems today is A Dialogue between the Body and the Mind. These entities (often body and soul) had long been popular in dialogue, especially post-Cartesian times: used both for straight...

These are highly literary poems. In her preface MS invokes Keats . She writes on mythological topics, both Biblical (Eve, Cain, Mary) and classical (Icarus, Persephone). She titles poems with an eye to her predecessors...

Several of these poems concern people and places that figured significantly in her recent experiences. EGB dedicated The Travellers to E.G.R.; it recalls her first meeting with Esther Roper , who was to be...

The same year saw the appearance of his essay on Marvell .

AF published her second historical biography, which she called Cromwell : Our Chief of Men, from a poem in praise of Cromwell by Andrew Marvell .

DW 's In a Green Shade (title from Andrew Marvell ) appeared in print with illustrations by Muriel Juniper . It is a gardening book or rather a gardening diary.

VSW followed her Behn biography two years later with Andrew Marvell, to open Faber and Faber 's series The Poets on the Poets (in which the second volume was provided by Eliot writing on Dante ).