Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller: Seventeenth-C. Chambers<|

Name: Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller: Seventeenth-C. Chambers<|
Brand: Pennsylvania State University Press

Pennsylvania State University Press

Andrew Marvell and Edmund WallerSeventeenth-Century Praise and Restoration Satire\nAuthor(s): A. B. Chambers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271026268, 978-0271026268\nSynopsis\nIn 1660, Edmund Waller was an eminent poet whose claims to fame rivaled those of even his most illustrious predecessors, while Andrew Marvell had scarcely any reputation at all. Today, however, that situation is completely reversed. A. B. Chambers's study shows that Waller has been unjustly neglected in recent times and that, together, some of the work of Waller and Marvell bridged the gap between the work of the early seventeenth century and the Restoration. Chambers suggests that Waller and Marvell are mutually illuminating, that their poems have substantial intrinsic interest, and that they opened the door through which Dryden made his entrance to become the dominant literary figure of the Restorat.