Marvell Against Mourning

Andrew Marvell has several poems about “mourning” to his credit, most notably his funeral elegies for Francis Villiers, Henry Hastings, and Oliver Cromwell, which memorialize the deceased by deploying tropes of bereavement, grief, and consolation––that is, the stuff of elegy. Curiously, his short ly...

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Main Author: Kevin Laam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2022-06-01
Series:Marvell Studies
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Online Access:https://marvell.openlibhums.org/article/id/8341/