Andrew Marvell and the Lord Wharton

Marvell Studies Ten Years After the Longman Annotated English Poets Edition of Andrew Marvell's Poems

“…I spent time in the summer pushing on with the biography of Andrew Marvell that I had begun to construct in 2002 (it had in fact been commissioned as long ago as 1996). I had also been in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for much of that summer, feeling very out of the way, and certainly irrelevant when Nick von Maltzahn published his splendid piece in the TLS revealing new manuscript connections between Marvell and Lord Wharton, and hence a new context for understanding ‘The Garden’ (Von Maltzahn, , ). The first sense I had of a transformation was at a meeting of the London Renaissance Seminar in Birkbeck College sometime that autumn (I was in London teaching for Princeton at UCL).…”