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Tag: Andrew Marvell

284. (Andrew Marvell)

If we take Andrew Marvell’s Damon the Mower as an avatar for the poet himself, there is something peculiar in … More

Andrew Marvell, Caroline Poetry, Poetry

184. (Andrew Marvell)

Not that the poems are about language, but they are about a mild yearning for something beyond or before civilization … More

Andrew Marvell, Metaphysical Poetry, Platonism

99. (William Empson)

Whatever else its relationship to genre, wit is a particular way of coping with the world’s fragility, its tendency to … More

Alexander Pope, Andrew Marvell, Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Christopher Ricks, Jonathan Swift, Poetry, Robert Lowell, T.S. Eliot, William Empson, wit

92. (Robert Lowell)

My mind is snared by wit, and Marvell’s wit in particular. The Greatness of that poet, once proclaimed, has burned … More

American poetry, Andrew Marvell, Poetry, Robert Lowell, wit

91. (Andrew Marvell)

Rather than delete the earlier posts, which now seem wrong in different ways, I’ll keep them and build on them: … More

Andrew Marvell, Poetry, T.S. Eliot, waste, wit

90. (Andrew Marvell)

Yesterday’s post on Andrew Marvell perhaps flew too high in abstraction; the thought that literature might be classified by tolerance … More

Andrew Marvell, comedy, genre, George Eliot, pastoral, Poetry, satire, tragedy, wit

89. (Andrew Marvell)

When T.S. Eliot, in his essay on Andrew Marvell, offered his incomparably confusing characterization of “wit,” what was he onto? … More

Andrew Marvell, Baudelaire, Christopher Ricks, genre, Michael Wood, Poetry, T.S. Eliot, waste, William Empson, wit

47. (Andrew Marvell)

Even Christopher Ricks, whose criticism is chary in its courtship of the political, feels that Marvell, in one of the … More

Andrew Marvell, Christopher Ricks, Empson, Poetry
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