ANDREW MARVELL

ANDREW MARVELL

BY

AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE

A

HARVARD

COLLEGE

OCT 31 1905

LIBRARY

Copyright in the United States of America, 1905

PREFACE

I DESIRE to express my indebtedness to the following editions of Marvell's Works.

(1) The Works of Andrew Marvell, Esq., Poetical,
Controversial, and Political: containing many
Original Letters, Poems, and Tracts never
before printed, with a New Life. By Captain
Edward Thompson. In three volumes.
London, 1776.

(2) The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of
Andrew Marvell, M.P. Edited with Memorial-
Introduction and Notes by the Rev. Alex-
ander B. Grosart. In four volumes. 1872.
(In the Fuller Worthies Library.)

(3) Poems and Satires of Andrew Marvell, sometime
Member of Parliament for Hull. Edited by

G. A. Aitken. Two volumes.

and Bullen, 1892.

Reprinted Routledge, 1905.

Lawrence

Mr. C. H. Firth's Life of Marvell in the thirtysixth volume of The Dictionary of National Biography has, I am sure, preserved me from some, and possibly from many, blunders.

3 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN,

June 3, 1905.

A. B.

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