Loving Gardens, Loving the Gardener? ‘Solitude’ in Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Garden’

In ‘The Garden’, Andrew Marvell devotes a lot of time to extolling the virtues of the solitude he experiences in the garden of the title. Despite Marvell’s insistence that he prefers solitude to ‘society’, at the end of the poem his attention comes to rest approvingly on a human figure: the Gardener...

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Published in:Marvell Studies
Main Author: Laura Seymour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-10-01
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Online Access:https://marvell.openlibhums.org/article/id/3633/