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Forming History, Inhabiting Form in Marvell's "Upon Appleton House".

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 literary-historical conventions of its inherited country house form while als...

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Published in:Poetics Today Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 659 - 689
Main Author: Shohet, Lauren
Format: Article
Published: Duke University Press Winter2014
Subjects:
Upon Appleton House (Poem)
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678
English poetry
English poets
Hermeneutics
Heuristic
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