Abstract:Andrew Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" meditates on when and how forms and events become meaningful. The poem reveals the limitations of criticism that assumes rather than questions what constitutes history. Drawing on the literaryhistorical conventions of its inherited country house form while also engaging its immediate historical context of 1651 northern England, "Upon Appleton House" offers a dynamic, relational model of how history, form, and interpretation articulate one another's conditions of possibili… Show more
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