O brambles, chain me too
Tom Paulin: Life and Vowels of Andrew Marvell, 25 November 1999
World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell
by Nicholas Murray.
Little, Brown, 294 pp., £20, September 1999,0 316 64863 9 Show More
by Nicholas Murray.
Little, Brown, 294 pp., £20, September 1999,
Marvell and Liberty
edited by Warren Chernaik and Martin Dzelzainis.
Macmillan, 365 pp., £47.50, July 1999,0 333 72585 9 Show More
edited by Warren Chernaik and Martin Dzelzainis.
Macmillan, 365 pp., £47.50, July 1999,
Andrew Marvell
edited by Thomas Healy.
Longman, 212 pp., £12.99, September 1998,0 582 21910 8 Show More
edited by Thomas Healy.
Longman, 212 pp., £12.99, September 1998,
“... In the great quilted cento that is Moby-Dick, there is a passage which might be interpreted as Melville’s response to James Barry’s 1776 engraving The Phoenix or the Resurrection of Freedom. In the engraving Andrew Marvell is depicted with Milton, Locke and Algernon Sidney among the mourners at the bier of Britain’s traditional liberties. Across a pond the mourners can see a Neoclassical rotunda with an eagle-like phoenix raising its strong wings ... ”
