Andrew Marvell
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literary readers interested in seventeenth-century English poetry and Marvell's work
- Researchers and students wanting to understand early English literary biography
- Readers with English reading ability who enjoy essayistic criticism
- Supplementary readers for courses in English literary history
Not a good fit for
- Readers with limited English who need Chinese translation and notes
- Specialist researchers expecting contemporary scholarly standards and detailed textual scholarship
- General readers with no interest in classical English poetry
Reading tips
- Read some of Marvell's representative poems first, then the biography, for a more concrete understanding
- Note Birrell's period perspective while reading, and distinguish commentary from fact
- Read alongside an English literary history textbook to trace seventeenth-century poetry
- Read in sections and take brief notes on the main points of the critical biography
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) was an English writer and man of letters; public information on the details of his life is limited. Five of his works are held here, chiefly essays and critical papers, together with a literary biography. The essay collections Obiter Dicta and its Second Series represent his achievement in the familiar essay, written with ease and wide reference, offering insight in a conversational manner. In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays centres on libraries and books and conveys a booklover's pleasure, while Res Judicatæ: Papers and Essays gathers further papers and essays. He also wrote Andrew Marvell, a study of the seventeenth-century poet. His polished, bookish style will appeal to readers fond of the English essay tradition. This note is based on the information available here and on well-established public knowledge.
