ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS ANDREW MARVELL BY AUGUSTINE BIRRELL New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1905 All rights reserved COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1905. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith Co. 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 MemorialIntroduction and Notes by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In four volumes. (In the Fuller Worthies Library.) 1872. (3) Poems and Satires of Andrew Marvell, sometime G. A. Aitken. Two volumes. Lawrence and Reprinted Routledge, 1905. Mr. C. H. Firth's Life of Marvell in the thirty-sixth 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, A. B. 346842 |