By Annabel Patterson
Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is healthier identified this day because the writer of a handful of beautiful lyrics and provocative political poems. In his personal time, even if, Marvell used to be well-known for his very good prose interventions within the significant problems with the recovery, non secular toleration, and what he known as "arbitrary" as exact from parliamentary executive. this can be the 1st smooth variation of all Marvell's prose pamphlets, entire with introductions and annotation explaining the old context. 4 significant students of the recovery period have collaborated to supply this really Anglo-American variation. From the practice session Transpros'd, a serio-comic best-seller which seemed with tacit permission from Charles II himself, throughout the documentary Account of the expansion of Popery and Arbitrary govt, Marvell verified himself not just as a version of liberal suggestion for the eighteenth century but additionally as an impossible to resist new voice in political polemic, wittier, extra literary, and therefore extra readable than his contemporaries.
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I. B. 2. ∞∑ Richard L. Greaves, Enemies under His Feet: Radicals and Nonconformists in Britain, 1664–1677 (Stanford, 1990), p. 232; Greaves understandably has some di≈culty in explaining why a work that came out under the king’s protection in 1673 should have suddenly become seditious three years later. ∞∏ Pierre Legouis, P&L, 2:394; citing Hatton Correspondence, 1:128; Hatton had presumably neither seen the play nor read the pamphlet, since he misnames Sir Fopling Flutter. The ascription must have been common.
None more esteems them, nor loves their Conversation better than I do. They are the succeeding hope of our Church, the Youth of our Clergy; and the Clergy are the Reserve of our Christianity. Some of them, whom I know, have indeed, and do continue daily to put very Singular Obligations upon me; but I write to a Nobler end, then to revenge my Petty Concernments. Adieu. ∑ It hath been the Good Nature (and Politicians will have it the Wisdom) of most Governours to entertain the people with Publick Recreations; and therefore to incourage such as could best contribute to their Captious Reader: one who is disposed to make objections, caviling; cf.
Nathaniel Ponder and John Darby were, of course, known to have been responsible for the Rehearsal Transpros’d. ∞≠ In the event, only Darby and Ponder were arrested. On May 10 Williamson recorded the indictment of Ponder ‘‘for printing Marvells book’’: ‘‘Owned to have had those papers from Mr. Marvell with directions from him to print them. That he, Ponder, gave them out to be printed, that he had no license for the book. Ordered to be committed. Lord Privy Seal opposed it, because the cause is bailable by statute.
