Talk:Andrew Marvell

message: This from a page redirected here, might provide material for additions. Charles Matthews 12:37, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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message: A goodly number of online sources say he died on 18 August 1678.  One even says it was "Friday, 18 August 1678".  Do we know for certain it was the 16th?  --  JackofOz (talk) 07:00, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of death

message: It seems to me not quite correct to say that Marvell has a good eye for perspective. Perspective in this context is a visual thing; this is not the kind of perspective that one refers to when trying to put things in perspective. I wonder how readers are supposed to interpret the meaning of Marvell's having a good eye for perspective? I think the sentence should be reworded to say whatever it really intends to say.Geneven (talk) 16:53, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Perspective

message: This article needs a lot of cleanup as a whole, and while I am capable of doing it and citing every single fact, I'm kind of a busy guy.  So, I figure I'll start by opening up a list of things that need to be changed.  I'll chip away at this stuff as I find time, but any other ambitious people can follow my lead in repairing the problems.
--Someone please find a reliable reference for the "brutally murdered" bit.  Actually, don't waste your time, Marvell died of ague, at least on official records (there was a conspiracy theory, synchronous to the Popish Plot, that he had been poisoned by Jesuits for some of his anonymous anti-papist pamphleteering).  Any half decent university library can supply you a citation to support this.
--Marvell had a career as a politician, prose controversialist, and political activist that during his lifetime and scholarly afterlife far overshadowed his career as a poet, at least until T.S. Elliot took an interest.  This is not at all represented by the article, and can be supported by many easily accessible works, again, available in any half decent university library.  Annabel Patterson's scholarly work is a good place to begin, that or just the introductions to the recent Yale editions of Marvell's prose for an overview.  In fact, his prose was very influential in the early 18th century, Jonathan Swift was a fan, and the Whigs turned him into somewhat of a mascot for political virtue.
--His poetry goes well beyond the genre of Restoration "metaphysical" poetry.  It's multi-dimensional, elusively or overtly political (see the Horatian Ode &c, or what are called his "Verse Satires"), and often is driven by a tortured sexual identity, see Upon a Eunuch, or the Mower Poems (the existing article touches on this issue a little bit).  Nigel Smith's notes in the Longman Edition of Marvell's Poetry can provide a source here, again, check a university library.
I know this is kind of a bitchy addition to the talk, and I'm sorry for that, but this particular article has been frustrating me.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Nhackler (talk • contribs) 08:38, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wait, What?  Some of this discussion is embarrassing. 

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message: Surely the /r/ is not typically pronounced when saying his name, is it? At least not in RP – and presumably that's what's used for these IPA pronunciation guides, right? Wikiwikiwoolgar (talk) 12:56, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation