Andrew Marvell

Matthew C. Augustine is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, UK. A past president of the Andrew Marvell Society, he is the author of Aesthetics of Contingency: Writing, Politics, and Culture in England, 1639-89 (2018), and principal convener of the British Academy Conference ‘Reimagining Andrew Marvell: The Poet at 400’.

• 1. Introduction: A Literary Life?.- 2. Andreae Filiae: East Riding, Yorkshire, 1621-1633.- 3. In loco parentis: Cambridge, 1633-1641.- 4. ‘Our wits have drawn th’infection of our times’: London and the Continent, 1641-1650.- 5.‘Some great prelate of the grove’: London and Nun Appleton, Yorkshire, 1650-1652.- 6.‘With my most humble service’: England and the Continent, 1652-1659.- 7. ‘His anger reached that rage which passed his art’: England, the Netherlands, and the Baltic, 1659-1667.- 8. ‘the interest and happiness … of the king and kingdom’: London, 1667-1678.