POLEMICIST IN PROSE CONTEMPORARY AND LATER COMMENTS
1 RICHARD LEIGH on the Rehearsal Transpros'd, 1673
2 SAMUEL PARKER'S first response, 1673
3 EDMUND HICKERINGILL on the Rehearsal Transpros'd, 1673
4 [?JOSEPH GLANVILL] on the Rehearsal Transpros'd, 1674
5 An anonymous comment on the author of the Rehearsal Transpros'd, 1674
6 ROCHESTER on the Parker controversy, c. 1674–5
7 ROBERT MCWARD comments on Parker and Marvell, 1677
8 THOMAS LONG comments on the Transproser, 1678
9 BISHOP BURNET on the Parker controversy
(a) from An Enquiry into the Reasons for Abrogating the Test, 1678
(b) from his History of My Own Time, before 1715
(c) from A Supplement to his History
10 ANTHONY À WOOD from Athenae Oxonienses, 1691–2
11 DEAN SWIFT'S allusion to the controversy, 1710
12 ISAAC DISRAELI on the Parker controversy, 1814
13 BISHOP CROFT'S letter to Marvell, 1676
14 An anonymous poetic tribute, c. 1689
15 W.P.KER on the superiority of Mr. Smirke, 1894
16 An anonymous notice from A Letter from Amsterdam, 1678
17 ROGER L'ESTRANGE on the Growth of Popery
(a) from An Account of the Growth of Knavery, 1678
(b) from The Parallel or An Account of the Growth of Knavery, 1679
18 [? MARCHAMONT NEDHAM] on the author of the Growth of Popery, c. 1678
19 An anonymous tribute On His Excellent Friend, post 1678
20 From Tell-Truth's Answer to Tell-Troth's Letter, c. 1680
(a) from His Majesties Declaration Defended, 1681
22 BISHOP PARKER again on the Growth of Popery and the ‘First Anniversary,’ c. 1687
23 A further comment on the Growth of Popery, 1689
24 Three eighteenth-century historians comment
(a) from Roger North's Examen, post 1706
(b) from Laurence Echard's History of England, 1718
(c) from John Oldmixon's History of England, 1730
25 HENRY ROGERS on Marvell's defense of Howe, 1836
26 DR JOHN BROWN on Marvell, 1854
Satirist, Patriot, and Emergent Poet
1652–1845
27 MILTON'S recommendation of Marvell, 1652/3
28 JOHN AUBREY'S comments, post 1678
29 JAMES YONGE, from his Journal, c. 1681–2
30 NAHUM TATE, an allusion, 1694
31 Preface to Poems on Affairs of State, 1697
(a) from More Reformation, 1703
(b) from A Review of the State of the British Nation, 1711
33 THOMAS COOKE on the life and writings, 1726
34 JAMES PARSONS on ‘Eyes and Tears,’ 1747
35 VOLTAIRE on In eandem [Effigiem] Reginae Sueciae transmissam, 1748
36 WILLIAM MASON, from the ode “To Independency,” 1756
37 CHARLES CHURCHILL on satiric poetry
(b) from lines attributed, 1776
38 CAPTAIN EDWARD THOMPSON on Marvell's works, 1776
Note RALPH GRIFFITH'S unsigned review, 1776
39 JOHN AIKIN on Marvell, 1799–1815
40 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S sonnet, c. 1802
41 Three political comparisons
(b) from the journal of Henry Wansey, 1796
(c) from a letter by James Russell Lowell, 1845
42 WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES'S notes on “Upon the Hill and Grove at Bill-borow” and “Appleton House,” 1806
43 THOMAS CAMPBELL on Marvell, 1819
Note from FRANCIS JEFFREY'S review, 1819
(a) from a letter to William Godwin, 1800
(b) from “The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple,” 1821
45 WILLIAM HAZLITT on Marvell's poetry
(a) from Lectures on the English Poets, 1818
(b) from Lectures on the English Comic Writers, 1819
(c) from Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, 1820
(d) from Select British Poets, 1824
(c) from the Literary Examiner, 1823
(d) from the Monthly Repository, 1837–8
(e) from “An Illustrative Essay” in Wit and Humour, 1846
(f) from “Andrew Marvell” in Wit and Humour, 1846
47 A two-part anonymous account of Marvell, 1824, 1825
48 RALPH WALDO EMERSON'S comments
49 JOHN CLARE, from a letter to H.F.Cary, 1829
50 JOHN DOVE, from The Life of Andrew Marvell, the Celebrated Patriot, 1832
51 Three anonymous reviews of Dove's Life of Andrew Marvell
(a) from the Eclectic Review, 1832
(b) from the Monthly Review, 1832
(c) from the Westminster Review, 1833
52 HARTLEY COLERIDGE, from The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire, 1832
53 SAMUEL CARTER HALL on the poetry, 1836
54 EDGAR ALLAN POE comments, 1836
(a) from the History of the English Language and Literature, 1835
(b) from the Cyclopaedia of English Literature, 1844
56 From the Penny Cyclopaedia, 1839
57 HENRY ROGERS'S observations on Marvell, 1844
58 GEORGE L.CRAIK'S observations on Marvell, 1844–5
59 A portrait of the poet and prose writer, 1847
60 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER on Marvell, 1848
(a) from the International Magazine, 1851
(b) from Eclectic Magazine, 1852
62 MARY RUSSELL MITFORD, from Recollections of a Literary Life, 1852
63 An anonymous notice on the “Horatian Ode” and “Eyes and Tears,” 1853
64 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL'S observations on Marvell's poetry, 1854
65 GEORGE DAWSON, from Biographical Lectures, 1859
66 GEORGE GILFILLAN comments on Marvell, 1860
67 MATTHEW ARNOLD on the “Horatian Ode,” 1861
68 HERMAN MERIVALE'S comments on the political poetry, 1861
69 SAINTE BEUVE on the “Horatian Ode,” 1864
70 ARCHBISHOP TRENCH'S comments on “Eyes and Tears,” “Horatian Ode,” and “On a Drop of Dew,” 1868, 1870
71 JOHN ORMSBY'S essay from the Cornhill Magazine, 1869
72 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL on two of the Cromwell poems, 1870
73 CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE on Marvell, 1871
74 EDWARD FITZGERALD'S comments on two poems, 1872
75 W.D.CHRISTIE'S reviews of Grosart's edition
(b) from the Saturday Review, 1873
76 An American divine comments, 1877
77 SIR EDMUND GOSSE on the garden poetry, 1885
78 ALFRED LORD TENNYSON'S comments
(a) from A Memoir by Hallam Tennyson, 1887–8
(b) from Personal Recollections by F.T.Palgrave, 1849–92
79 A.C.BENSON on Marvell, 1892
80 J.STUART'S review of Marvell in the Muses' Library Series, 1892
81 SIR E.K.CHAMBERS'S review of Marvell in the Muses' Library Series, 1892
82 RICHARD GARNETT on Marvell, 1895
83 An anonymous comment on the poetry, 1897
84 ALICE MEYNELL'S comments on Marvell
(a) from the Pall Mall Gazette, 1897
(b) from the Pall Mall Gazette, 1899
85 GEORGE SAINTSBURY'S comments on Marvell, 1898
86 H.C.BEECHING on the lyrics, 1901
87 An anonymous review article on Marvell's prose style, 1902
88 W.J.COURTHOPE on “The First Anniversary,” 1903
89 STEPHEN GWYNN on the Puritanism of the poet, 1904
90 AUGUSTINE BIRRELL on Marvell, 1905
91 Three unsigned reviews of Birrell's Andrew Marvell
(a) from the Times Literary Supplement, 1905
(b) from the Saturday Review, 1905
92 A poet's review of Birrell's edition, 1905
93 ALBERT F.SIEVEKING on garden poetry, 1908
94 EMILE LEGOUIS comments on “The Death of O.C.,” 1912
95 EDWARD B.REED on Marvell's lyrics, 1912
96 FRANCIS L.BICKLEY on the quality of Marvell's poetry, 1913
97 ISAAC ROSENBERG comments on “To His Coy Mistress,” 1917
98 A.CLUTTON-BROCK on Marvell and Vaughan, 1918
99 H.M.MARGOLIOUTH on Marvell and his contemporaries
(a) “Marvell and Cowley,” Saturday Review, 1919
(b) “Marvell and Other Contemporaries,“ Saturday Review, 1919
100 H.J.MASSINGHAM on Marvell's poetry
(a) from A Treasury of Seventeenth-Century English Verse, 1919
(b) from the Nation and Athenaeum, 1921
101 SIR HERBERT GRIERSON on the metaphysical lyric, 1921
102 CYRIL FALLS on the tercentenary of Marvell's birth, 1921
103 T.S.ELIOT on the tercentenary of Marvell's birth, 1921
Note Eliot's review of the Nonesuch edition of Marvell, 1923