World Enough and Time (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Nicholas Murray
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1621-1678
- Setting: Vicinity of Hull, Cambridge, and London, England, as well as several European countries
- Principal Characters: Andrew Marvell, Reverend Andrew Marvell, Charles II, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas, Lord Fairfax, John Milton, Samuel Parker
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Poetry or poets, Seventeenth century, Kings, queens, or royalty, Politicians, London, England
- Locales: Europe, London, England, Cambridge, England
In 1680 a woman named Mary Palmer who claimed to be the widow of Andrew Marvell, best known at the time as a longtime member of Parliament for Hull, made an attempt to secure Marvell’s estate. Her alleged inspection of his London quarters turned up only “a few Books & papers of small value.” Among these papers would have been his unpublished poems, including several immortal poems of the English language. Nevertheless, Palmer decided to publish the poems the following year, although for more than two centuries they attracted the attention of only a few connoisseurs. It is...
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