If we take Andrew Marvell’s Damon the Mower as an avatar for the poet himself, there is something peculiar in … More
Tag: Andrew Marvell
184. (Andrew Marvell)
Not that the poems are about language, but they are about a mild yearning for something beyond or before civilization … More
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
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
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
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
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
47. (Andrew Marvell)
Even Christopher Ricks, whose criticism is chary in its courtship of the political, feels that Marvell, in one of the … More
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